Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich called for President Donald Trump to be disqualified from running for office again under the Fourteenth Amendment.
“Not only should Trump be prosecuted,” Reich wrote on Facebook.
“But Section 3 of the 14th Amendment clearly bars anyone from holding office who has ‘engaged in insurrection’ against the United States of America.”
“He should be disqualified from running for president, it’s that simple,” Robert Reich concluded about Trump.
According to Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, 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. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
The term “insurrection or rebellion” refers to the former Confederate States of America, which Democrats claim Trump is guilty of due to the Capitol riot on January 6.
As we know, Trump held a peaceful rally opposing the certification of some Electoral College votes a mile away from the Capitol.
Trump also told protesters at the Capitol to go home.
As The Daily Fetched reported last week, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said the quiet part out loud suggesting the indictment against Trump is designed to get him to drop out of the presidential race in exchange for the charges being dropped.
“You have to wonder if the Justice Department is considering whether there is some political solution to this criminal problem,” Rachel Maddow told Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC on the Trump indictment.
“Do they consider as part of a potential plea offer, something that would proscribe him… proscribe him from running for office again? I don’t know.”
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Last week, Trump proclaimed his innocence following the indictment.
“I am an innocent man,” Trump said in the video.
The charges listed include an Espionage Act charge, several Obstruction charges, False Statement charges, and a Conspiracy charge.
The Trump War Room account captioned the post:
“The Biden administration is totally corrupt. This is election interference & a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time. Make America Great Again!!!” Trump said.
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Reich doesn’t subscribe to the idea of innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
REICH. Didn’t that have something to do with NAZI Germany? Just asking.
Little Robbie Reich, Clinton’s bagman, belongs in prison.