'Not a fan of President Trump': Ex-president's lawyer slams judge that handed him a win

An insurrectionist can run for president.

Former President Donald Trump will be permitted to stay on the primary ballot in Colorado after District Judge Sarah Wallace concluded he committed an insurrection back on Jan. 6, 2021, by inciting a mob to prevent the certification of the presidential election where he lost — but shot down some state voters' attempt to invoke the 14th Amendment from banishing him from holding office again.

“Trump acted with the specific intent to incite political violence and direct it at the Capitol with the purpose of disrupting the electoral certification,” she wrote in the 102-page ruling. “Trump cultivated a culture that embraced political violence through his consistent endorsement of the same.”

The outcome is being met with bittersweetness by one of Trump's attorneys.

"I think pretty clearly she is not a fan of President Trump," Scott Gessler said during an appearance on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins. "But to be honest with you, normally courts will rule on jurisdictional issues, will rule on whether the law applies before going into all of that."

"So, it's really a backwards way of going into it compared to how courts normally do that."

Gessler thinks that the purpose of blaming the president but not going so far as banning him from the run back to the Oval Office was likely intentional.

"Maybe she just wanted to be able to say that," he said. "I don't know her motivations along those lines."

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"But at the end of the day, the voters of Colorado are going to be able to make the choice, not a court; and we're thankful that she respected the role of voters and stopped the, sort of, efforts or at least the effort in Colorado, which is antidemocratic, trying to strike President Trump off the the ballot."

He further tried to settle any fears that the long-winded document of Judge Wallace's ruling was littered with editorial and won't be used against his powerful client, who continues to be leading the race to become the GOP candidate.

"At the end of the day, she ruled for us and properly so," he said. "And this, you know, is her opinion on what happened. But it has no legal authority at all because of her ruling."

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