BREAKING: Major government ethics watchdog demand that Donald Trump be immediately “disqualified from holding any public office, including the Office of the President, under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
But it gets even WORSE for Trump…
The watchdog, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), issued a blistering official statement explaining their demand that reads as follows: “On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump took the oath of office, swearing to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,'” CREW wrote on its website in a preview of its nearly 90-page report.
“Almost four years to the day after taking that oath, on January 6, 2021, Trump caused a violent insurrection that nearly overthrew an election and shattered our democracy. The January 6 insurrection es the culmination of a multi-part scheme by Trump and his allies to use lies, intimidation, coercion and ultimately violence to keep Trump in office. Donald Trump is the living embodiment of the threat that the Fourteenth Amendment’s framers sought to protect American democracy against when they barred constitutional oath-breakers from office.
The 14th Amendment does not require a criminal conviction for disqualification. Significant evidence demonstrates that Trump voluntarily aided the January 6th insurrection through numerous overt acts and words in furtherance of the insurrection, even spreading theories of a ‘stolen’ and rigged’ election, pressuring state election administration officials, state and federal lawmakers and Vice President Pence to overturn the election results and weaponizing his Justice Department to do the same.
When his extra-legal attempts to overturn the election failed, he resorted to inciting violence. Trump assembled and later sent the mob to stop, by force, Congress and the Vice President from fulfilling their constitutional obligations under the Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral Count Act to certify the election results of the 2020 presidential election. And the mob did just that.
President Trump violated his constitutional duties on January 6, failing to act for 187 minutes, watching the attack unfold on television. The risk of a repeat or escalation of January 6th poses such an existential threat to our democracy that it demands the use of all available legal tools to prevent it. Donald Trump is neither above the law, nor is he above democracy.
Overwhelming evidence establishes that President Trump was the central cause of and a participant in the insurrection. Because of that, Trump is disqualified from holding any public office, including the Office of the President, under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”