Donald Trump addressed a rally in Iowa on Tuesday (December 19) shortly after a court in Colorado barred the former president from appearing on the state’s ballot in the 2024 presidential election, Reuters reports.
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump is disqualified from the election because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. Trump told supporters in Iowa, which in January will be the first state to choose a Republican candidate, that U.S. President Joe Biden a “threat to democracy”.
“It's no wonder crooked Joe Biden and the far-left lunatics are desperate to stop us by any means necessary. They are willing to violate the U.S. Constitution at levels never seen before in order to win this election. Joe Biden is a threat to democracy. He’s a threat. They're weaponizing law enforcement for high-level election interference because we're beating them so badly in the polls,” Trump said.
Trump, the Republican frontrunner, again railed against undocumented immigrants in language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing Nazi rhetoric. But Trump told his supporters on Tuesday that, despite the comparisons, he had never read Adolf Hitler’s manifesto, “Mein Kampf”, and insisted that Hitler used such language “in a much different way”.
Trump is heavily favored to win the Iowa caucuses, but there have been last-minute surprises in the past, and on Tuesday he urged his supporters to go out and vote on January 15th.
