Democrats will try anything to keep Donald Trump from running for president.
On Monday, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich (D) called for secretaries of state to refuse to place Trump's name on the ballot in 2024.
“The most obvious question in American politics today should be: why is the guy who committed treason just over two years ago allowed to run for president?” Reich wrote in an op-ed for The Guardian. “Answer: he shouldn't be.”
“Secretaries of state – who in most cases are in charge of deciding who gets on the ballot – must refuse to place Donald Trump's name on the 2024 ballot, based on the clear meaning of section three of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” Reich urged.
Reich, who served as labor secretary under former President Bill Clinton, argued that Trump is guilty of treason through his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, as a mob of supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Reich also made a similar argument as House Democrats last year who introduced legislation that sought to bar Trump from office under the 14th Amendment.
The amendment states, “No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States … who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
“Can any of us who saw (or have learned through the painstaking work of the January 6 committee) what Trump tried to do to overturn the results of the 2020 election have any doubt he will once again try to do whatever necessary to regain power, even if illegal and unconstitutional?” Reich asked.
Reich peddled numerous conspiratorial scenarios in which Trump-loyalist secretaries of state and governors “alter the election machinery” to help Trump win the White House.
“Trump tried these tactics once. The likelihood of him trying again is greater now because his loyalists are now in much stronger positions throughout state and federal government,” he continued.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung slammed Reich and others calling for Trump to be kept off the ballot.
“What these un-democratic organizations and individuals are doing is blatant election interference and tampering. They are not even trying to hide it anymore, and it is sad they want to deprive the American people of choosing Donald Trump — the overwhelming front-runner by far — as their President,” Cheung told Fox News Digital. “History will not judge them kindly, and they will have to answer for their desecration of the Constitution.”
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden officially unveiled his re-election campaign, potentially teeing up a rematch against Trump and Biden.
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Reich is an idiot.
Robert Reich is a pathetic Communist just like the Communist Democrat Party!
They all belong in PRISON!
Torch is a total and complete loser. He nothing but a Deep Syate POS. iif he was a real American he would insist Joe Biden be in prison.
such a tiny man. . .in stature, character, integrity, and, and, and. . .
“Why is the guy who committed treson only two years ago allowed to run for President’? This guy dumber then he looks. If he even knew what the word treason means, he would be looking at the present occupant of the WH.
Is he from The Third Reich?