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NBC News wet dream falls back on 1868 ruling on question of Trump being ‘barred from office’

February 4, 2024 | | Print Article

NBC News has been ratioed on the social media platform X for sharing a veritable wet dream about former President Donald Trump’s elimination from the 2024 ballot.

According to the far-left outlet, Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment could be used by the Supreme Court to keep Trump off the ballot in Colorado.

As previously reported, in December the left-wing Colorado Supreme Court voted to bar Trump from the ballot because, they said, Trump had “engaged in” a so-called insurrection on Jan. 6th, 2021.

The ruling was then appealed and made its way to the Supreme Court, which is poised to soon issue its own ruling on the matter.

“The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments [next] Thursday in what is shaping up to be the biggest election case since its ruling nearly 25 years ago in Bush v. Gore,” according to SCOTUSblog.

“At issue is whether former President Donald Trump, who is once again the front runner for the Republican nomination for president, can be excluded from the ballot because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol,” the site reported on Friday.

Enter NBC News, which argued in a piece published Saturday that the key to keeping Trump off the ballot could be Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment.

“The provision was intended to prevent former government officials who joined the Confederacy from holding office after the Civil War,” the site reported. “It states that those who previously took an oath to support the Constitution and then ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion‘ are no longer qualified to serve again.”

There was just one problem, according to critics: Trump has never been convicted of engaging in an insurrection.

“There was no insurrection. Not a single person was charged with insurrection. You can’t engage in something that didn’t exist,” one critic succinctly wrote.

“Yeah more NBC Pravda. Not one person from J6 has been even charged with insurrection but go ahead and keep spouting your lies,” another critic added.

See more backlash below:

Colorado isn’t the only state where left-wing officials have tried to boot Trump from the ballot.

Over in Massachusetts, last month several groups — including Free Speech For People and a Massachusetts-based civil rights firm — joined forces and filed suit alleging that Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment should prohibit Trump from being on the state’s ballot as well.

The suit claimed Trump is ineligible to hold office because he’d, “through his words and actions, after swearing an oath as an officer of the United States to support the Constitution, engaged in insurrection or rebellion, or gave aid and comfort to its enemies, as defined by Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

“Donald Trump violated his oath of office and incited a violent insurrection that attacked the U.S. Capitol, threatened the assassination of the Vice President and congressional leaders, and disrupted the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our nation’s history,” Ron Fein, the legal director at Free Speech For People, said in a statement at the time.

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