Former President Donald Trump appeared confident Thursday that the Supreme Court will allow Colorado to remain on the 2024 ballot, with the three justices he appointed ruling in his favor. I predicted that it would fall.
The 77-year-old Republican presidential primary front-runner told a Fox News host: “We've appointed three great judges, and there are some other great judges, too.'' I don't intend to take it away,” he said. Sean Hannity.
President Trump added, “The Supreme Court will say, 'We're not going to take away votes from people,'” and accused President Biden of being a real “threat to democracy.”
In a 4-3 ruling last month, the liberal-controlled Colorado Supreme Court ruled that President Trump was not eligible to appear on the Centennial state's 2024 ballot under the Constitution's so-called insurrection clause.
The majority justices determined that President Trump “engaged in the insurrection” by his actions prior to and during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next month in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Colorado state court's ruling.
The former president went on to argue that his strong performance in numerous state and national polls should be taken into account by high court judges.
“But I don't think the Supreme Court will do that because you can't get on the ballot. You know, I'm leading in every poll. I'm leading Biden, but the rest of the Republicans are also leading… They are barely holding on. How can they take away votes?'' he said.
When Mr. Hannity asked the former president for a “last message to the people of New Hampshire” ahead of the state's Republican primary on January 23, Mr. Trump seemed focused on his still-pending lawsuit.
“It's very simple. It's about putting America back together,” Trump said, before turning the topic to the pending verdict in the presidential immunity lawsuit that was argued last week before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It’s about making it great.”
The former president indicated that his immunity case would also end up in the Supreme Court.
“They have another important thing to do. [case] And that's the immunity of the president, the president of the United States. And I'm not talking about myself,” Trump said.
“What I'm talking about is that every president has to have immunity, because if you take away a very important immunity from a president, you have immunity. The president has nothing to do with immunity. You can't do that anymore, because when a president leaves office, an opposing president, if he's an opponent, will indict him for doing something good.”
President Trump has said that if a court rules against Biden on his presidential immunity claim, Biden, 81, will be indicted upon leaving office over his handling of the border crisis and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He claimed to be deaf. I meant it in a good way. ”
“I think what he did was terrible, but he probably did it with, I don't know, hard to believe, good intentions,” Trump said of Biden's policies. “It's hard to believe he meant it well, but this man is incompetent. But the president must retain immunity.”
If the D.C. Circuit or Supreme Court sides with Trump's immunity claim, it could thwart Special Counsel Jack Smith's efforts to prosecute Trump for his actions during the Capitol riot. is high.
Unlike the Colorado voting incident, the former president did not predict what the outcome of his immunity claim would be during his Fox News appearance.
In a post on Truth Social the same day, President Trump said he hoped it would be an “easy decision” for the court.
“God bless the Supreme Court,” he added.
