President Joe Biden‘s campaign rebuked former President Donald Trump‘s response to the Supreme Court‘s decision to keep him on Colorado‘s Republican primary ballot as “unhinged” and “confused.”
“Donald Trump is starting this week the only way he knows how — with unhinged, confused ramblings focused only on himself,” Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa said Monday. “Today’s chaotic musings from Trump only remind the American people why they voted him out of office four years ago.”
But Moussa’s statement did not address the Supreme Court’s decision Monday morning to override one by the Colorado Supreme Court that found Trump was ineligible for the state’s primary ballot because he could be considered an “insurrectionist” over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Section 3 of the Constitution‘s 14th Amendment disqualifies insurrectionists from holding public office.
“Trump thinks this election is about him and his power — not the American people — and that’s why he’s going to lose again,” Moussa said.
Trump praised the Supreme Court’s decision Monday, the opinion preventing other Democratic-led states, such as Maine and Illinois, from also removing him from the ballot as Republicans in Colorado and Maine vote on Super Tuesday. While the state parties would have made alternative arrangements to allocate their delegates before the Republican National Convention this summer in Milwaukee, the ruling clarified whether the former president can appear on general election ballots.
“I want to start by thanking the Supreme Court for its unanimous decision today,” Trump said Monday. “It was a very important decision, very well crafted. I think it will go a long way toward bringing our country together, which our country needs.”
But despite the cause for celebration, Trump’s speech underscored his personal concern with the other cases he has pending before the Supreme Court, particularly his presidential immunity matter.
“Another thing that will be coming up very soon will be immunity for a president,” Trump said. “If a president doesn’t have full immunity, you really don’t have a president. … They have to make decisions, and they have to make them free of all terror that can be rained upon them when they leave office or even before they leave office,” Trump said.
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“If a president does a good job, I did — some people would say a great job — but if a president does a good job, a president should be free, and clear, and frankly, celebrated, for having done a good job, not indicted four times and not gone after on a civil basis,” he added.
A Biden campaign aide declined to comment after the Washington Examiner inquired about the Supreme Court’s Colorado decision, but an official told NBC News the president’s team “really” does not “care.”