Trump Responds To Supreme Court Ballot Eligibility Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overruled a Colorado courtroom’s resolution to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential poll as a result of he engaged in riot.

The unanimous 9-0 resolution prevented answering whether or not or not Trump engaged in riot, discovering as an alternative that states wouldn’t have the appropriate to disqualify candidates for federal workplace beneath the 14th Amendment.

To nobody’s shock, Trump greeted the information with glee.

“BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!” he wrote on Truth Social, the right-wing social media firm he’s accused of attempting to filch from its co-founders.

Trump doubled down on that sentiment in remarks at Mar-a-Lago, applauding the justices for his or her resolution.

“They worked long, they worked hard, and frankly they worked very quickly on something that will be spoken about 100 years from now and 200 years from now,” he mentioned.

Trump additionally reiterated his perception that the choice of his eligibility finally lies with the voters.

“The voters can take someone out of the race but a court shouldn’t be doing that,” he mentioned.

The twice-impeached former president faces 91 legal fees spanning 4 legal instances for trying to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election, illegally retaining tons of of extremely categorized paperwork after he left workplace, and falsifying enterprise information in the course of the 2016 presidential election to hide hush-money funds he made to 2 ladies with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs.

Should he be reelected, and may his authorized crew efficiently delay the trials in these instances till after the election, Trump is broadly anticipated to instruct the Department of Justice to drop the investigations into him.