Wednesday on FNC’s “The Story,” unbiased presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. criticized the decisionmakers in Colorado and Maine for eradicating former President Donald Trump from their presidential major ballots.
“I simply need to ask you one news-of-the-day query earlier than I allow you to go concerning the Supreme Court docket, probably taking on the problem of taking the previous President Trump off the poll in Colorado and in Maine, the place there may be additionally this effort,” FNC host Martha MacCallum stated. “What do you consider these efforts to take the previous president off the poll primarily based on an revolt cost that he has not been charged with?”
“I feel it’s wrongheaded,” Kennedy replied. “I feel it’s counterproductive. I’m not a fan of President Trump that’s why I’m operating towards him. However I don’t need — and I’m assured that I’m going to beat him. I don’t need to beat him on a slanted taking part in area. I feel the American individuals need to see a good struggle. They need debates, they need actual democracy. They need to have the ability to select their candidate, their president not have a court docket select it. And as you level out, I’ve learn the choice and it is not sensible to me you can deprive an American citizen of this proper? We’re unprecedent with out ever charging him with a a lot much less convicting him of revolt. He’s not even charged with it.”
“ that appears to violate due course of and it makes us appear like a banana republic,” he added. “And by the best way, I feel it’s going to harm the people who find themselves behind it. I feel it turns Trump right into a sort of, you understand, that folks realize it’s unfair, and it turns him into sort of amplifies it — you understand, him as a mythological determine. I feel it’s very, very short-sighted and it’s simply flawed, it’s un-American.”
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