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Trump tells SCOTUS kicking him off ballot would ‘unleash chaos’


Donald Trump laid out his legal arguments at the Supreme Court for why he should remain on the 2024 ballot, urging the court to “put a swift and decisive end” to lawsuits that say he is ineligible to serve as president because of his efforts to cling to power after he lost the 2020 election.

The challenges to his eligibility “threaten to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans” and “promise to unleash chaos and bedlam” around the nation if they proceed, Trump’s lawyers wrote in a legal brief submitted Thursday evening.

Trump’s lawyers urged the justices to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling last month that concluded he should be barred from the ballot there under the 14th Amendment, which prohibits people from serving in public office if they engaged in insurrection after taking an oath to support the Constitution.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case on Feb. 8.


Yeah, threatening the Supreme Court sounds like a solid plan for ex-president Trump.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tells-scotus-kicking-him-225504542.html

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It's also Unconstitutional. He is correct about it causing a Constitutional crisis.

The Book of Yahoo insinuating any kind of actual violence is going to happen is 100% conjecture and bullshit.

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This from article is from Politico not Yahoo, genius. You Trump supporting goons already showed their violent tendencies on Jan 6. and recently all the death threats to the judges and other officials who are presiding over Trump's many indictments. I don't see Biden supporters do any of that.

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LOL J6 was a hoax... you can thank the Ray Epps ruling for that.

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How can you be so stupid to think Jan. 6 was a hoax? Millions of Americans watched live on TV what happened on that day. That's just one reason why most Americans dislike Trump and his political career is over. Tim for you to move on. You'll feel better when you do.

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Whether or not Ray Epps was some plant (no evidence has been proposed for this) - the notion that one man is somehow capable of inciting thousands of people is laughable, and doesn't actually negate their activities.

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The laughably soft sentence of community service is strong evidence he was a plant. Hell, it's very close to proof.

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It's really not. It's attempting to connect the dots.

https://time.com/6133336/jan-6-capitol-riot-arrests-sentences/

Loads of people got softer sentences

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Epps is on film THE DAY BEFORE, agitating that the next day, 1/6, they will go INTO the capitol building.

The ONLY way he doesn't get slammed with prison time, is that he is a fed agent.

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"In videos shared widely on social media and right-wing websites, Epps is seen the day before the riot saying, “Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol ... peacefully.” On Jan. 6, video shows him saying, “As soon as the president is done speaking, we go to the Capitol.” Epps has said he left Capitol grounds when he saw people scaling walls and never actually went inside the building."

You may be overstating the intensity of what he said. In any case: the notion that one man is somehow capable of inciting thousands of people is laughable, and doesn't actually negate their activities. If that's all the FBI needed, dear me, that's pathetic.

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I said nothing about it just being him.

Odd that you made that leap.

What a strange thing to assume.

Oh, wait, that gave you an excuse to dismiss the point.


The clip I saw, he was pretty intense. They sentences of the 1/6 rioters have been HARSH. They have been dropping the HAMMER on these people.

COMMUNITY SERVICE for a guy calling to storm the capitol? No fucking way. Not unless he is a fed.

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Got any evidence of anyone else or is this one, singular example (speculation) all you've got?

Can you link me this clip please?

>They sentences of the 1/6 rioters have been HARSH. They have been dropping the HAMMER on these people.

Not all of them, as I outlined.

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1. You seem to be tryhing to frame this discussion as ONLY inside agitators are relevant. Is that your intent?

2. No. Searching brings up tons of shit. Mostly idiots talking abouot the clips not the clip.

3. Considering the level of hostility and bias in the process we have seen, those that got lighter sentences must have been... barel there. Epps was calling THE DAY BEFORE, to go inside the building. That lefties like yourself are downplaying THAT, shows that you know he is one of you.

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1. Any evidence of any other agitators or are you purely focusing on this one guy?

2. Then fuck off then. Clips or fuck off.

3. Have you actually looked this up for confirm any of this?

>That lefties like yourself are downplaying THAT, shows that you know he is one of you.

I am me. You are not. I'll decide what I think. Not you. Is that clear, shitbrains?

Remember, I think you're pond scum, so I'll talk to you how I please when you start to make accusations against me (given this forum has almost no rules)

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1. So, indeed, you are purposefully trying to dishonestly limit the question to inside agitators? Why would you do that?

2. Nope. I saw it, and indeed, you probably saw it too. We both know that the leftards in the goverment normally would use that as an excuse to bring the hammer down, and instead they gave him a slap on the wrist.

3. You want me to do a background check on Epps? As though I would be able to penetrate a professionally done cover identity done with the coopertion of government agencies? I would be flattered by your high opinon of me, except that I know you are just... bullshitting.

4. Yes, you are you. And I can see how you join in the leftard troll games, quite often. LIke this thread, where you are here to riducle the increasingly likely possibility that thee 1/6 riot might have been a pre-planned fbi operation.

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1. Because you're claiming there were obviously lots of inside agitators but have no evidence other than speculation.

2. Clips or fuck off.

3. So you have no evidence.

4. "Increasingly likely" purely in your own mind.

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1. I did no such thing. And reserve teh right to cite other factors.

2. Nope. And nope.

3. Sure I do. THe slap on the wrist despite very damning video evidence.

4. If you really believed that, you would have challenged me to cite any other evidence. But you want to limit the discussion, as much as possible. Clearly the response of someone who knows their position is WEAK AS FUCK.

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1. All you've got is you think he got a low-tier punishment, as did many others - and you've not investigated what they all did.

2. Clips or fuck off.

3. No, you don't. And that's not evidence. I can't comment on this video until you show it to me.

4. Cite "any other evidence" then. Which you have not.

I still maintain that you inadvertently portray the MAGA supporters at the Capitol that day as dumbasses easily manipulated. And I don't care that it offends you because I don't give a flying fuck about what you think.

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1. i stand by my assumption. And reserve the right to cite other factors.

2. Nope and nope.

3. it is strong evidence.

4. The police attacking hte crowd BEFORE the violence started. The police allowing the rioters to enter. The government not releasing the video. All steps to take only if there were undercover agents in place and/or trying to create a FALSE AND MISLEADING image of the events.

5. You are projecting YOUR assumption on to me, and standing by it, even after I told you I do not share it. THat is you being a dishonest prick.

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1. Do so then.

2. Clips or fuck off.

3. No, it's not. And I can't comment on this video until you show it to me.

4. Show me a video clip of the police firing on them before anyone did anything. There were also plenty of clips of police trying to stop them from storming the capitol, but they continued to do so.

5. You don't seem to think that the MAGA crowd there being (apparently) so easily manipulated makes them stupid, but I do.

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1. see #4

2. nope adn nope.

3. Yes, it is. After teh way that the government has demonized these people, for them to give THIS guy, such a light setence, is very strong evidence that he is a government undercover agent.

4. Can't find it. Youtube search just not bringing it up. I will try more later.

5. You take an angry crowd of any group of people, seed it with professional agitators, attack it with rubber bullets and flash bangs, and you can get a violence response. I do not consider being riled up into violence in such a situation to be evidence of any special "stupidity
". So, you are welcome to insult them if you want, but don't pretend that I agree. That would be you being a troll boi.

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1. Do so then.

2. Fuck off then.

3. No, it's not. WHat you insist without evidence I can dismiss without evidence. Plenty of people had 'lesser' sentences.

4. Not my problem. I can dismiss what you say.

5. And there's no evidence this happened, and you are apparently unable to provide anything.

And I didn't say you agreed.

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2. no and no.

3. Sure it is. The guy, if he is to be believed, was a FIREBREATHING RADICAL. If anyone should have gotten a harsh sentence, it would have been this guy. Instead, the OPPOSITE.

4. i didn't say it was.

5. You pretend that by dismissing all evidence cited.

6. You have in the past.

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2. Fuck off them.

3. No-one portrays him this way except the far-right election deniers.

4. So your claims are dismissed.

5. You haven't "cited" any evidence.

6. No, I didn't. Your shitty reading comprehension is not my problem.

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2. NO.

3. Really? How strange.... how very strange....

4. As standard for a lefty. All evidence dismissed for "reasons", then they crow about lack of evidence. Meanwhile they call people wacist because of.... the most pathetic bullshit excuses ever and expect to be taken seriously.

5. Sure I did. If this was presented by a leftard prosecutor directed at an actual republcians, you would be howling for blood. But since it is going the other direction, you see nothing, you know nothing, those two dots? NOthing to do with each other. Do you think you are fooling ANYONE?

6. Sure you did. Standard lefty behavior. Especially the denying it now. LOL. Typical.

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2. So why are you replying to me?

3. What? The "left" doesn't spend any time at all thinking about Ray Epps. It's the right-wing conspiracy class that try to portray him as some firebreathing posterboy for January the 6th, presumably in an attempt to elevate his relevance on that day so they can peddle this frivolous conspiracy garbage.

4. You haven't provided any evidence

4b. No, I wouldn't think that. You are not me and don't get to decide what I think, shitbrains.

6. No, I didn't. I never at any point alleged that you think this. Unlike you I am not such an arrogant manipulative prick that I decide to tell other people what they think.

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2. You are a good representative of the left, an important part of the community. Unfortunately.

3. So the cancel mob types, can see a video of a man screaming to invade the capitoll, and they somehow know to NOT talk about what a bad man he is....?

You know, the way that leftards just know the Party Line and mindless conform to it, is fucking inhuman. What happened to you people? Were your brains replaced with lemming brains?

4. Sure I have. You just dismissed it. I could hand you a bloody knife and you would ask for a lab report on the "red stuff". There can be no "proof" when there is no good faith.

6. Ok. Sure fine. let's move on to the next point of that tactic.

Justify your... premise that possibly being entrapped or led into violence is a sign of stupidity.

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2. You don't know anything about my wider political values. You've made repeated false assumptions about what I think.

3. Because he wasn't any person of note at all on that day. And you still haven't provided this video of his being truly awful, and until you do, you can shove your textual narrative of it up your ass.

3a. What "party line" are you even on about?

4. You've never got any close to providing evidence for any of your claims relating to this.

6. It's self-explanatory. If you genuinely think that storming the Capitol, smashing through police walls and vandalising equipment inside, and forcing congress to flee is a good idea because some guy shouts at you to do it, you genuinely need your head checked. You talk about the left being lemmings or conforming to the "party line" but then make excuses for, in your mind, thousands of people being manipulated into commiting obvious, serious crimes.

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"because some guy shouts at you to do it"

They were incited, goaded, and provoked by 220+ federal assets and the capitol police using gas grenades and rubber ammunition against the protestors.

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You really are stupid. I guess you saw something different than millions of Americans who watched on live TV exactly what happened on Jan 6. As usual you make outrages claims yet you never back them up.

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You saw exactly what they wanted you to see. A distortion of the Facts.

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I watched the insurrection on Fox News. Did they distort the facts too?

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They released the same footage to all MSM.

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>They were incited, goaded, and provoked by 220 federal assets and the capitol police

Provide evidence that there were "220 federal assets" please.

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2. My conclusion about you is based on many long discussions we have had. If you don't like it, perhaps you should consider what your behavior is telling people about yourself.

3. "Wasn't a person of note"? He is on tape telling peopel to be more aggressive in the riot. That is at least incitement if not LEADING.

3a. It is a historical reference to the way that you lefties used to toe the party line to new directives from Moscow, like the good little totalitarian serfs that you were/are. You today continue the same behavior, but the control mechanism is.... hidden.


4. Sure I have. You just dismissed it. I could hand you a bloody knife and you would ask for a lab report on the "red stuff". There can be no "proof" when there is no good faith. You are a troll boi.

5. But such riots and "mostly peacefful protests" had been and STILL are normalized in our society. THere have been plenty of instances of lefty "protestors" doing similar actions with little if any reprecussions.

You are just rationalizating your hate of people you hate, after the fact.

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2. You claimed that I was pro-hamas at one point, completely and utterly speculating with zero evidence. You've completely misunderstood all of my positions on all topics I've ever taken, but that is expected because you are genuinely a moron.

3. Show me this tape you keep screaming about. And one person, one singular person was apparently enough according to you to make thousands of people who are apparently complete lemmings storm the capitol building.

3a. How am I totalitarian? Do you even know what "totalitarian" means?

4. No, you haven't. You've made logic jumps. At no point was anything equivalent to a "bloody knife" provided.

5. So are you now implying because you think riots are normalised (a highly debateable, unevidenced claim in itself) and that people get away with them with no reprecussions (also utterly unevidenced) that justifies the morons at the Capitol on that day being trivially manipulated into disrupting congress in a vain effort to stop the election certification?

Who do I hate? When I have I said I hate anyone?

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2. I'm sure you gave me good reason to reach that conclusion.

3. You have repeated ridiculed my position by characterizing single points as though I was arguing that this facet ALONE was what caused the riot. I have pointed out each time that I did was NOT claiming that, yet you keep doing that. STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE.

3A. The way you lie to conform to the party line. That is totalitarian beahavior.

4. The slap on the wrist sentence for eppss, is pretty close. And you dismissed it.

5. Stop restating my statements. EVERY TIME YOU DO THAT, you do it wrong.

My point stands. "Mostly peaceful proteests" has been, and still are, normalized. It would not be unreasonable to assume that an angry "protest" could occupy a government building and there to be no serious repreccussions.

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2. Based on what? You have no fucking idea, you're literally just going "he is left-wing therefore he must support Hamas". It's rooted in your bigotry.

3. So what else caused those people to storm the capitol building?

3a. That's not the definition of totalitarian. And you forget, as usual, that I'm not American and have no binding obligation to the Republicans or the Democrats.

4. There were plenty of "slap on the wrist" sentences.

5. What was wrong here exactly?

5b. This wasn't a "peaceful protest". And if it wasn't "unreasonable", are you saying that they stormed the building with intent expecting it to be acceptable?

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2. Based on both of ours past behavior.

3. a. violence from the police. b. other agitators. c. possible infiltation of the leading organizations. d. the cops letting the people in.

3a. It might not be the "definition", but it is an important part of what makes totalitarian government possible.

4. Bullshit.

5. Dude. Just stop it. Respond to my points or don't, but stop the restating. you SUCK at it. You are either just an idiot, or using it as a form of lying. Eithe way, fucking stop it.

5. My god, seriously. Stop being a fucking asshole. Of course the riot was not a "mostly peaceful protest". That was my fucking point, you asshole.

"Mostly peaceful protests" ie RIOTS, had/have become normalized, and such behavior was and still is often done without serious concequences.

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2. Not detailed. Answer me. What have I said that makes you assume I must support Hamas?

3. Provide evidence for the claims that police incited them. Provide evidence of infiltration of the "leading organisation". How does some isolated examples of the cops letting them (which have been misrepresented by the right) justify the many other videos of them forcing their way in?

3a. And the USA does not have a totalitarian government. The point is that you're attributing a tendency towards me that is not what "totalitarian" means.

4. I literally provided a source:

https://time.com/6133336/jan-6-capitol-riot-arrests-sentences/

Plenty of lesser sentences.

5. Right, but you're coming up with post-hoc justifications for why it was not peaceful in this instance.

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2. I don't remember.

3. Found one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc0mH6BoH-w

You want evidence of possible infiltration? Do you not understand the definition of the word possibe?

3a. Your behavior is the type of behahvior that totalitarians want from their serfs. You are giving it to them.

4. With no evidence of similiar incitement by the others, so, your source is not actually a source that supports your claim.

5. We were discussing YOUR point that these people were stupid. KEEP ON POINT. if it had been normalized then expecting to be able to do it, without facing severe penalties, would undermine your point.

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2. Your typical cop-out. Here's the real answer. You assumed because I am left-wing. That was literally it. No other evaluation was required from you.

3. Need more an overview as to what is going on specifically here.

What's your thought on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iludfj6Pe7w&t=30s

3a. By not agreeing with you on everything, I assume?

4. You literally told me you never read any of the minor charges. And Ray Epps again, is a symbol in your own head, he was anonymous until after the riots when conservative pundits began trawling footage to find him. Suddenly he was some ringleader.

5. They were stupid. Real dumdum fuckheads simpletons who thought raiding the US government to try and overturn an election was clever and would result in little consequences. They are simple minds.

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2. Or, it was a while ago, and I don't remember.

3. You can see cops throwing flashbangs into the crowd before violence starts.

Your clip? Irrelevant.

3a Dude. I explained the behavior I was discussing, before. YOu are doing circles to... be a fag.

4. My point stands. Epps got a slap on the wrist for some of the most extreme behavior.

5. I like that you just dropped out of the discussion and simply reasserted your initial claim. That was an admission that you already lost the debate. Thanks.

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2. Literally all of your accusations against me on everything are rooted purely on because I'm left-wing. Nothing more. As well as your accusations about me "hating" anyone, or your accusing me of wanting to persecute people based on zero evidence but your own prejudice.

3. You don't know what else is going on, whether or not they've rejected any orders from the police.

How is my clip irrelevant?

3a. Yes, your point here is that I don't think that January the 6th is a setup. Therefore according to you I am nothing more than a puppet. Anyone who disagrees with you on this is a puppet.

4. You literally told me you never read any of the minor charges. And Ray Epps again, is a symbol in your own head, he was anonymous until after the riots when conservative pundits began trawling footage to find him. Suddenly he was some ringleader.

5. "Oh we can raid the capitol and nothing will happen to us because there were riots going on elsewhere in the USA at different points". Genuinely braindead logic, if that was their logic (which you seem to be alleging it was).

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2. False.

3. I see one slap on the wrist for a serious crime. Y ou assume others. I do not.

It does not address...anything. irrelevant.

3a That was not my point re : your behavior. Your stonewalling is noted.

4. Your stonewalling is noted.

5. "Mostly peaceful protests" were normalized. Stop playing dumb and address this, or just fuck off. We are runnign out of space.

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2. Not remotely.

3. No-one thinks he did anything "serious" other than the reactionary brigade online. Again:

You literally told me you never read any of the minor charges. And Ray Epps again, is a symbol in your own head, he was anonymous until after the riots when conservative pundits began trawling footage to find him. Suddenly he was some ringleader.

3a. And what was your point?

4. You literally told me you never read any of the minor charges. And Ray Epps again, is a symbol in your own head, he was anonymous until after the riots when conservative pundits began trawling footage to find him. Suddenly he was some ringleader.

5. They also weren't directed at the Capitol building and didn't cause members of congress to flee for their lives. They also weren't about an attempt to stop election certification. You have to be genuinely braindead to think that wouldn't be as a collective action, taken very seriously.

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2. False.

3. Your blather is noted. THe slap on the wrist is still srong evidence of him being an undercover agent.

3a Your stonewalling is noted.

4. Your stonewalling is noted.

5. You are just lying now.

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2. So why do you make up shit about me then?

3. You literally told me you never read any of the minor charges. And Ray Epps again, is a symbol in your own head, he was anonymous until after the riots when conservative pundits began trawling footage to find him. Suddenly he was some ringleader.

4. You literally told me you never read any of the minor charges. And Ray Epps again, is a symbol in your own head, he was anonymous until after the riots when conservative pundits began trawling footage to find him. Suddenly he was some ringleader.

5. Lying about what?

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out of time, you lose. you had your chance and you decided to shit talk.

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2. So why do you make up shit about me then?

3. You literally told me you never read any of the minor charges. And Ray Epps again, is a symbol in your own head, he was anonymous until after the riots when conservative pundits began trawling footage to find him. Suddenly he was some ringleader.

4. You literally told me you never read any of the minor charges. And Ray Epps again, is a symbol in your own head, he was anonymous until after the riots when conservative pundits began trawling footage to find him. Suddenly he was some ringleader.

5. Lying about what?

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How does the involvement of a right wing agitator and Oath Keeper Chapter President like Epps mean it was hoax?

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Two words: antifa riots.

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I'm in two minds
The way I see it he 100% engaged in insurrection
On the other hand I'd rather see him lose and more years of ludicrous whining about rigged ballots , than just being a martyr with his "they wouldnt let me run" story.

Let him run , if gets in , so be it .
It'll be funny , especially from outside the US

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You're from the UK right? You might eat those words. US security is tied to European security which is tied to Ukraine. TFG's "America first" attitude means the aid faucet to Ukraine gets turned off.

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The way I see it he 100% engaged in insurrection


He told everyone to be peaceful.

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He said it with silent inverted commas 😂

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Trump also told his stupid supporters to fight like hell. Then he ran back to the White House and watched the riot unfold then waited over three hours before telling his band of idiots to stop. Trump is through.

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"Fight Like Hell"

No, that was Steven Crowder's stupid slogan.

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Ah. So now he’s shifted to terrorist mode.

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Technically, he's not wrong. He's telling the truth for once. Not that it should stop the SCOTUS from performing its duty. Even though that's what his fascist fanboys are hoping for.
I'd be shocked if the SC actually permits states to take him off the ballot. I don't think it will happen only because they're terrified of getting shot or their house firebombed by some crazy MAGA mofo.
Now..in the event that they side with Colorado and Maine on this issue...Trump is correct. There will be outbursts of violence. We know how it goes by this point after January 6th.

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Gee, more stochastic terrorism from trump.

What a "surprise".

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