Donald Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung blasted the premise that Congress might block the incoming president from assuming energy — calling it a “threat to Democracy” on Thursday.
The Hill revealed an op-ed with the headline, “Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now,” pushing that those that engaged in an rebel towards the Structure ought to be banned from assuming energy.
“Oh, look. Democrats want to steal the election and invalidate the will of the American people,” Cheung wrote on X in response to the op-ed.
“Threat to Democracy.”
“Here are two idiots inciting an insurrection …Remember the names: Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now,” Chris LaCivita, a former 2024 marketing campaign Trump adviser, additionally wrote.
“You people are sick,” Trump’s center son, Eric, chimed in.
“Such a crazy thing for them to say. Legacy media is just the propaganda arm of the radical left,” Trump ally Elon Musk wrote in response to the scion’s tweet.
The Hill article notes that the 14th Modification within the Structure states, “No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath … 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.”
The article argues there are three factors that show Trump participated in an rebel: Congress impeaching him after his actions on Jan. 6, the Colorado Supreme Court docket discovering that he “engaged in insurrection” and the conclusions of the bipartisan inquiry into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“The evidence of Donald Trump’s engaging in such insurrection is overwhelming,” argues the op-ed, written by Evan A. Davis and David M. Schulte, two Democrat attorneys.
No members of Congress have been making noise in regards to the modification in current weeks, however Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) had beforehand pointed to the identical argument about why Trump ought to be disqualified.
“Well, absolutely, and we’ve been saying all along that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment presents a clear and unequivocal statement that anyone who has sworn an oath of office,” Raskin instructed CNN’s Dana Bash in 2023.
“And by the way, not just the president but members of Congress and others who hold federal office, who engage in insurrection or rebellion, having sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, can never serve again in federal or state office.”
