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Maine bars Trump from ballot but ‘experts believe he will still be able to run’ • FRANCE 24

  • December 29, 2023



Maine bars Trump from ballot but ‘experts believe he will still be able to run’ • FRANCE 24

Well this is a decision by shanon Bellow The Secret of State in Maine a democratic official she has ruled uh Donald Trump should be disqualified from the Republican primary election in that state in in March uh basically because of the the third section of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution which uh

Says uh anyone who’s engaged in an Insurrection against the US Constitution should not be able to to run for president uh again and uh uh Bellow’s uh delivered her her verdict saying look I I know how unpresidented it is for a secretary of state to uh disqualify a

Presidential candidate but I’m I’m also mindful just how unprecedented it is for a presidential candidate to engage in an Insurrection and she uh specifically talked about the events of January the 6th 2021 when of course that violent mob of trump supporters stormed the US capital overturn Joe Biden’s victory in

2020 she regards Trump’s Central status effort and instigating the mob and and therefore um not eligible to to take part in this election uh of course uh in doing this Maine is following Colorado which recently also banned Trump from its primary and in that case it was the

Uh the Supreme Court of Colorado uh this decision in Maine can still go to the uh to the state court and if they upheld it uphold it that of course uh like the Colorado one it may well end up with the uh the highest court in America the

Supreme Court for a final ruling on Trump’s fate and what is all of this likely to mean for Trump’s campaign what kind of an impact is this likely to have do you think well um first there’s the the legal matter of you know can he take part in these Republican primary

Elections um both and Colorado due to happen in in March by which time he may have the nomination wrapped up um anyway um and of course uh if the Supreme Court makes a ruling here that uh Maine and Colorado were wrong um then then Trump

Will be able to go ahead uh fine and um remember the Supreme Court has a conservative majority it has three Trump appointees so a lot of legal experts still think that he will indeed be able to participate uh if however it surprisingly goes against him we’ll have

To see the scope of the Supreme Court’s ruling does it affect other states does it then affect not just a primary but a potential general election against Joe Biden both Colorado and Maine do lean Democratic so Biden would probably win those anyway but uh we’ll just have to

See all those implications um the the other side to all this is that um these legal troubles of trump um including tonight’s ruling do tend to actually uh strengthen him politically within the Republican party uh even his Rivals for the nomination Nikki Haley Ronda Sanson Chris Christie uh all criticized the

Decision in uh in Maine uh the plant attack on democracy and that you Biden should be able sorry Donald Trump should be able to take part he shouldn’t have Democrats choosing who gets involved and and Trump of course tends to Rally his supporters to his cause as well

First, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump wasn’t eligible to run for his old job in that state. Then, Maine’s Democratic secretary of state ruled the same for her state. Both decisions are historic. But what do they mean for Trump’s political fate? “Many legal experts believe he will still be able to participate in the upcoming elections,” says David Smith, Washington bureau chief for The Guardian. “What’s more, these legal troubles do actually tend to strengthen him politically within the Republican party,” he adds.
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26 comments

  3. The Democrat leaders have just openly told the country that the people of these “blue” states don’t get to vote against Joe Biden.

    Maine has just made itself the subject of a lawsuit by The United States of America. Be damned in your violation of due process and your utter disrespect of the Constitution!

    If he engaged in an insurrection, where is the prosecution? The legal verdict, the trial, the right to call witnesses and to challenge the accusation? Did we all miss that, or have you gone rogue? Where are the charges? And you say Trump is the threat to democracy?

    Or, maybe PRESIDENT Trump was honoring his oath of office to defend the nation, seeing great concern in the election of 2020, and he admonished the nation to fight against political corruption and demand investigation, and to do so PEACEFULLY! That’s not an insurrection, it’s the responsibility of a president. The same suspect party attempted to impeach him for asking for an investigation into indicators of high crimes committed by Joe Biden, and they tried to torch him for asking for the investigation into that corruption, which now appears to have been incredibly valid and true! See the pattern?

  5. 10 of the top 10 states with the lowest average monthly salary? The Republican-led states of Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, South Dakota, Alabama, Louisiana, and Idaho.

  10. Did the Union government allow any of the Confederate secessionists to run for POTUS? No? So why can Trump run for the office after all he's done: Callously causing the death of over one million Americans in the Covid-19 pandemic; the January 6 insurrection; his theft of tons of top secret government documents; AND divulging details from said documents to uncertified foreign persons?

  13. Democrats are doing everything in their power to take the heat off Biden insurrection and global world order.their taking Rights from the voters by attacking Trump. If they can do this to him,just imagine what will happen if they were to win. Trump 2024🇺🇸

  17. It's unconstitutional for them to ban him from running, and SCOTUS will put an end to this farce soon. He's been convicted of nothing related to an insurrection. I would say the same about any candidate who had not had his day in a court of law pertaining to the act of insurrection. Additionally, the 14th Amendment has nothing to do with what they are saying he did, which is why SCOTUS will put an end to this nonsense.

  18. O,No.We all with our comments for Trump!He is good for us! He does not speak a word against our leader Putin. By firing insanely expensive missiles into the sand around Iranian bases, he warned us always! We named this place in Syria in his honor "Donnell's Dump". And after we learned that for a week after his order to “scare the insects in the sand,” he wore diapers, fearing an attempt by crazy guys in the United States, we felt sorry for him and we affectionately nicknamed him Diaper Don!Now we hope-he will give as territory of Ukraine for our voice for him!Live long Trump!

  21. This bloated orange slob convicted of sexual assault and fraud currently out on bail facing 91 felony charges hasn’t won anything since 2016

  25. Sen. Susan Collins
    @SenatorCollins
    Maine voters should decide who wins the election – not a Secretary of State chosen by the Legislature.   The Secretary of State’s decision would deny thousands of Mainers the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice, and it should be overturned.

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