CNN is not the place viewers tune in to for a defense of Donald Trump.
But even the Trump haters at CNN had to admit the truth.
And CNN made a shocking confession about kicking Trump off the ballot.
Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows banned Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Bellows – who is a partisan Democrat who called the Electoral College the relic of “white supremacy” – took it upon herself to declare Donald Trump guilty of insurrection even though Trump was never charged with that crime or convicted of it in a court of law.
The decision by a partisan bureaucrat to try and preemptively cancel the 2024 election in her state by removing the leading opposition party candidate shook even Democrats to their core as the dangerous consequences of this decision dawned on them.
Over on CNN, liberal legal analyst Elie Honig – who is no fan of Donald Trump – explained that Bellows didn’t even base her decision on the Constitution as Section 5 of the 14th Amendment leaves all enforcement to Congress and in 1948 Congress passed a law requiring a conviction on the charge of insurrection for Section 3’s ban on holding office to kick in.
“Let me sort of lay out the arguments both sides. And by the way, it’s worth saying, we’re all theorizing here. We’re in legally unknown territory. The argument against is, first of all, the 14th Amendment Section 5 says Congress has the authority to pass laws to implement this. They did, they passed the criminal law, and the argument is that means Congress, not the states. But perhaps, and this is the argument that the Maine secretary of state and Colorado made, the states can do it too. If that’s true, then section 2– question two is, were the processes, were the hearings fair? Did they comport with due process?” Honig began.
Honig then blasted the kangaroo court Bellows – who isn’t a lawyer – staged where she talked to one anti-Trump law professor and then cited news articles and YouTube clips as actual “evidence” of Trump committing insurrection.
As a former federal prosecutor, Honig ridiculed the idea that any judge would accept YouTube and newspaper clips as admissible in a court of law.
“And I think there’s a question there with regard to what Maine did, because if you look at the hearing, and she details this in the ruling, they heard from one fact witness, a law professor. She based her ruling on a lot of documents, but also YouTube clips, news reports, things that would never pass the bar in normal court. She’s not a lawyer, by the way. It’s a smartly written decision, clearly consulted with lawyers, but this is an unelected– she’s chosen by the state legislature. Chosen, elected by the legislature, but not democratically elected,” Honig added.
Bellows is the classic “resistance lib” who sprung up in the Trump era.
She is a white, college-educated elite whose brain broke when Trump won in 2016 and now believes she must dismantle democracy in order to save it.
The big story of the last eight years is Democrats revealing themselves as the party of projection.
Those screaming the loudest that Trump is a tyrant trying to impose authoritarianism on America are actually the ones guilty of being tyrants seeking to impose authoritarianism on the nation.
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