Capitol Police Officers Offer View About Trump's Eligibility for Presidency

Capitol Police Officers Offer View About Trump's Eligibility for Presidency


Several amicus briefs have been submitted in the case of Trump v. Anderson, addressing the issue of whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to run for the presidency again despite the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause.

Republican officials and former U.S. District Judge J. Michael Luttig have pushed for Trump’s disqualification, with Capitol police officers also filing a brief against Trump.

“Mr. Trump deliberately tried to break the Constitution—to incite threatened and actual armed force to prevent the peaceful transfer of executive power,” Luttig and the officials wrote. “That constituted engaging in an insurrection against the Constitution.”

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week after Colorado’s highest court ruled that Trump should not be on the 2024 ballot, claiming he engaged in “insurrection.” Multiple reports and analyses of the arguments said that most justices appeared unconvinced that the Colorado ruling should stand.

Trump himself took to his Truth Social platform to praise the Supreme Court.

“So I just say that in watching the Supreme Court today, I thought it was very — it’s a very beautiful process. I hope that democracy of this country will continue, because right now we have a very, very tough situation with all of the radical left ideas, with the weaponization of politics. They weaponized it like it’s never been weaponized before. It’s totally illegal, but they do it anyway,” Trump said.

“And it has to stop. Every one of the court cases and I’m involved, every single one, civil, whether it’s the attorney generals or the district attorneys. You look at Fani in Georgia. They had many meetings with the White House and with the DoJ. They went there, eight hour meetings. It was all staged. It was a phony hoax. And now you’re looking at it and it is a phony hoax. And hopefully that case will be dismissed in short order. It’s a — it’s a disgrace to this country, But they work together with the Justice Department and the White House and not supposed to do that,” Trump added.

“Every one of these cases you see comes out of the White House, it comes out of Biden, it’s election interference, and it’s really very sad. I thought the presentation today was a very good one. I think it was well received — I hope it was well received. You have millions of people that are out there wanting to vote, and they happen to want to vote for me or the Republican Party, or whatever you want to — however you want to phrase it,” Trump continued.


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