Trump's purportedly making "implicit threats" in his demand to remain on the 2024 presidential ballot.
Joyce Vance, a former federal prosecutor, appeared on MSNBC on Friday, saying former President Donald Trump's tactic of referencing potential "bedlam" was intentional, as if he's calling his MAGA fan base to action.
"The bedlam argument... is particularly disturbing, especially since Donald Trump is asking the Court to make the finding that he would never promote an insurrection," she said. "How odd to make that argument, but at the same time say 'If you take me off the ballot, there will in essence be disquiet in the country!'"
"This speaks to who Donald Trump is."
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On Thursday, Trump's lawyers filed a brief with the Supreme Court “to put a swift and decisive end” to the resistance he's facing to prevent him from appearing on the 2024 presidential ballot after falling short in the 2020 election against President Joe Biden.
In it, Trump said him being banned would “threaten to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans and ... promise to unleash chaos and bedlam if other state courts and state officials follow Colorado’s lead and exclude the likely Republican presidential nominee from their ballots.”
The case has the highest court in the land determining the Civil War-era Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifying those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office.
Vance sees this as purely incendiary; that a true leader is supposed to show fortitude towards the law and diffuse chaos rather than trigger it.
"If he really believed this argument was true and if he really believed in the Constitution — he would simply tell his followers 'We will tell whatever decision the courts of law make. There will be no bedlam. There will be no violence. We are a rule of law country. We will follow the law.'"
But Vance believes this kind of deference to order doesn't suit Trump's self-serving ambitions.
"Donald trump never says anything that approaches that," she said. "Instead he resorts do these implicit threats."
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