Fox News host Jesse Watters offers an interesting theory about how former President Donald Trump should be treated in court.
The host emphasized the recent ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which prevents Trump from running in the Republican primary in 2024. Concerns regarding the Democrats’ purported plan to encourage criminal activity among Trump supporters have been raised by this decision.
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“Five years after the Civil War, pro-slavery Democrats filled the halls of Congress, and 15 years later, pro-slavery Confederates actually flipped the House – 51 former Confederate soldiers or officials were elected into office,” he said. “Even the vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, an arch-secessionist, landed a seat in Congress.
“Another Confederate rebel, Lucius Lamar – great name – who literally drafted the Missouri secession plan, went on to serve as interior secretary and was later appointed to the Supreme Court,” the host said.
“But how is that possible? Because all week we’ve been hearing how the Constitution bans insurrectionists from office. The 14th Amendment. How would Confederate soldiers be allowed to serve in government but not Donald Trump?” he said.
“The 14th Amendment was substantially weakened by Congress 150 years ago, with President Ulysses S Grant prioritizing national unity and post-Civil War reconciliation over resentment,” said the host. “For years, this legislation has been ineffectual and largely ignored. However, its significance resurfaced with the arrival of Donald Trump.”
“Every time Trump’s arrested, he becomes more powerful in the eyes of the voters. What’s going to happen when they take him off the ballot? They’re turning Trump into the greatest political underdog America’s ever witnessed. They’re setting up the greatest comeback story in American political history,” he said.
“They say they’re protecting us from danger, but Trump’s not a danger to us, he’s a danger to them,” he said. “And Americans are starting to ask themselves why. It feels like the left wants violence because that’s where this is going. We’re being baited, so their actions are justified. That’s how it feels. The more the left overplays their hand, the scarier this gets.”
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) made an eerily similar prediction in an interview with Laura Ingraham of Fox News.
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In addition to discussing the 2024 election, the former Speaker talked about the wider ramifications of this case for future elections when he appeared on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
“This could turn out to be a disastrous scenario,” he voiced his worries. “Out of the 1,360,000 Coloradans who voted for Donald Trump in the last election, four lawyers are now attempting to prevent him from being on the ballot. In essence, for every 340,000 Trump supporters in Colorado, there is one lawyer opposing their choice. This level of establishment arrogance is simply not sustainable.”
Ten states declined to allow Abraham Lincoln to be on the ballot in 1860. The former Speaker said that this act is analogous to the current circumstances. The Supreme Court must understand that the people of the United States will not put up with being denied the right to vote for president.
“I mean, look at what has happened to America with this open border. That in and of itself is its own type of insurrection against sovereignty, against the rule of law. So is this not a natural reaction if this is the precedent they set?” the host said.
“The former Speaker emphatically expressed his concerns regarding the catastrophic consequences of Biden’s illegal immigration policy. He stressed that the influx of illegal immigrants under this policy is not an accidental failure but a deliberate disaster.”
“There is a deliberate policy on the border to maximize the number of people who come in. The next stage will be for the left to demand that they be allowed to vote even though they are here illegally. You can see the whole process,” he said. “And that’s why we are, I think, moving dangerously close to a really genuine confrontation over the very nature of America.”
