“Colorado’s top court concluded in December that the attack was an insurrection and that Trump is an insurrectionist who is barred by the Constitution from serving as president again. The Colorado justices ruled he could not appear on the state’s primary ballot but put their decision on hold while Trump pursued an appeal“
Trump was charged with insurrection in his second impeachment. A jury of biased Republicans, who decided to acquit to save their own political careers, let him off on the technicality that he had already lost reelection. Jurors like Lindsey Graham had already been run out of an airport by a mob of angry MAGA MORONS.
Mitch McConnell then stated that Trump should be charged for his crime once he was out of office.
insurrection as it was understood in the 1860s was “any public use of force or a threat of force by a group of people to hinder the execution of the law.”
“It was never considered an element of Section 3 that you need a criminal conviction,” he said, noting that after the Civil War many former Confederates were disqualified from office even though they had not been charged with insurrection or treason”
