Former President Donald Trump's legal defense by his attorneys in response to a suit filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which seeks to have him disqualified from the ballot in California under the 14th Amendment, is a doozy. We know that Trump has never read the Constitution, but he could at least fake it. After all, he faked being a president for four years. Although, he's a terrible actor. Trump's attorneys argue that the twice impeached one-term President was not required to “support” the Constitution.
The Independent reports:
A clause of the Amendment, which passed into the Constitution in 1868, bans those who “engaged in insurrection” against the United States from holding any civil, military, or elected office without the approval of two-thirds of the House and Senate.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers are arguing that the phrasing of the clause – section three – does not apply to all officers of the United States, “but only those who take an oath ‘to support the US Constitution’”.
“The Presidential oath, which the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment surely knew, requires the President to swear to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution — not to ‘support’ the Constitution," said the filing, obtained by news outlet Law and Crime.
