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Laura Coates Live

Trump removed from Colorado 2024 ballot

Laura Coates Live

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4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from the State’s 2024 ballot, after finding he engaged in an insurrection on January 6. The plaintiff and organization behind the 14th amendment lawsuit join to give their reaction the former president’s disqualification. Plus, Trump dismisses Hitler comparisons as he doubles down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric. And, CNN reports on the ground near the volcanic eruption in Iceland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Donald Trump is off the ballot in Colorado.

0:05.0

Now everyone's asking, well what's going to happen next?

0:08.0

Tonight I'm Laura Coates Live. Now how can I put this?

0:17.0

How can I put this?

0:18.0

Tonight is politically surreal.

0:22.0

Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, the current Republican front-runner,

0:28.0

campaigning right now as we speak to be re-elected,

0:32.0

hoping to sit right back down at that

0:34.4

resolute desk while the Colorado Supreme Court saying tonight you're gonna have to do

0:39.0

it in 49 states because Colorado isn't one why because they say that he engaged in an insurrection on January 6th and as a

0:48.1

result they say the 14th Amendment says that he is now disqualified from the

0:52.4

ballot and from being the

0:53.9

president of the United States of America. Now here's what the 14th Amendment

0:58.4

actually says. It says no person shall hold any office who having previously taken an oath to support the

1:05.7

Constitution of the United States shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion or give an aid

1:12.3

or comfort to the enemies thereof.

1:15.0

Sound familiar?

1:17.0

I bet it does.

1:18.0

Because you heard this argument from some members of the January 6th Investigative Congressional Committee.

1:23.6

You heard this from district court trial in the state of Colorado that we here covered extensively.

1:28.4

It was the first time that there was a real trial to determine whether Donald Trump had indeed engaged in an insurrection.

1:35.9

Remember the other times we delved in this as a nation, second impeachment trial.

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