Greetings everyone. It's 4 o'clock here in Washington DC. I'm Simone

Sanders Townsend in for Nicole Wallace and then there were two two states where the disgrace twice impeached, four times indicted

ex-president has been kicked off the ballot, or at least kicked off the ballot pending appeal.

More proof that Donald J. Trump is having a hard time

shaking the eye word and insurrection and that the Republican frontrunner is heading

into the new year with section 3 of the 14th Amendment nipping at his heels.

First, there was Colorado.

Now it's Maine saying that Trump is disqualified from being on the ballot.

And let's not forget that more than a dozen other states with the 14th Amendment have cases pending.

Fourteenth Amendment cases.

Now this new ruling from Maine Secretary of State is as fiery as it is somber.

Quote, I conclude, as did the Colorado Supreme Court

that the record establishes that Mr. Trump,

over the courts of several months and culminating

on January 6, 2021 used a false narrative of election

fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the Capitol to prevent certification

of the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power.

I likewise conclude that Mr. Trump was aware of the likelihood for violence and at least

initially supported its use given he both encouraged it with incendiary rhetoric and took no timely

action to stop it.

The weight of the evidence makes clear that Mr. Trump was aware of the tender laid by his multiple month effort to delegitimize a democratic

election and then choose and then he and then chose to light a match. I do not

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