Weissmann: ‘People Died’ in the Civil
War So Leaders Like Trump Could Be Banned
from Ballot
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by
Pam Key
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Posted By: Imright,
12/22/2023 12:50:26 AM
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Weissmann said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Americans died in the Civil War, so leaders “who engaged in insurrection” like the Colorado Supreme Court found former President Donald Trump did, can not run for office.
Weissmann said, “This is not new. It is true that this provision of the Constitution is new to lots of people because we’ve never been in a situation where you would have somebody running for office who engaged in insurrection or a rebellion. What’s remarkable to me is that the story isn’t really, the unanimous finding in the Colorado case because you had no one dissenting on the issue
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/22/2023 12:54:02 AM (No. 1622073)
It's always good to get an honest and unbiased opinion from a statesman the caliber of Andrew Weissmann. Hopefully I do not need to add the sarcasm off symbol on this one.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 12/22/2023 1:37:26 AM (No. 1622077)
Schtooopid runs deep in this one. But then, it’s hard to tell where evil ends and Schtooopid begins.
38 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vesicant 12/22/2023 2:08:29 AM (No. 1622078)
Trump hasn't been convicted of rebellion or treason. Section 3 of the 14th amendment doesn't mention a conviction by a court, but without one, "rebellion" and "treason" are just somebody's unsubstantiated personal belief. Ironically enough, Section 3 fails the due process and equal protection requirements of Section 1.
26 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
judy 12/22/2023 2:16:32 AM (No. 1622079)
Msnbc should be embarrassed to have Weissernann on their network…
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 12/22/2023 4:26:54 AM (No. 1622091)
Sit on it and rotate.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mifla 12/22/2023 5:09:01 AM (No. 1622094)
Translation. "We think you committed a crime, and that is enough to keep you off the ballot."
Time to invoke the Harry Reid Theorem.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/22/2023 5:28:05 AM (No. 1622098)
History will put Weissmann right up there with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg... and deservedly so!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Krause 12/22/2023 5:44:19 AM (No. 1622103)
I’m waiting on the deep dive report from the Colorado supreme Court proving that Trump caused an insurrection.
15 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
gwholmessr 12/22/2023 6:26:59 AM (No. 1622121)
Says this while they are tearing down a civil war monument. This guy is an idiot
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 12/22/2023 6:34:45 AM (No. 1622122)
So THAT'S why the Civil War was fought. Silly me...all these years I thought it was about slavery or something.
25 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Arrowhead 12/22/2023 6:55:32 AM (No. 1622128)
At poster #10--10 thumps up for a brilliant response to the idiocy of persecution of Trump!!!
Do not tease children for believing in Santa Claus because there are adults that believe braindead biden is president.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/22/2023 7:03:52 AM (No. 1622130)
Hopefully, this little POS nebbish is on a list somewhere. He has much to answer for.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Sully 12/22/2023 7:13:07 AM (No. 1622133)
Oh yes, obviously men died in the Civil War so that Andrew Weissnann could lead a coup against an elected President of the United States to drum up impeachment charges by conducting a secret "investigation" based on farcical false evidence resembling the script of a sitcom.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/22/2023 7:21:00 AM (No. 1622136)
When did your relative immigrate to America? Do you have any sense of what you're saying? By the way, it was the Democrats (Southern Plantation owners) who were the last to remove a controversial name from s State ballot - his name was Abraham Lincoln.
Try again, dolt.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
slipstik 12/22/2023 7:26:06 AM (No. 1622138)
I wish hypocrisy was a crime.
This guy has the unmitigated gall to cloak himself with the Civil War that he and his kind have gone so far out of their way to delete every trace of.
How convenient.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 12/22/2023 7:31:47 AM (No. 1622141)
Got it backwards, jacka**. People died in the civil war over a profound disagreement between the states. The 14th amendment was passed after the war to protect the UNITED states, a creation of the war as opposed to the united STATES. In the wisdom of the Constitution, the 14th amendment did not abrogate other civil rights…it would be necessary for a court to try facts (with all of the protections provided to defendants) b4 14 could be applied. Unfortunately, it also did not solve the problem of poisonous slander….
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
sw penn 12/22/2023 7:45:30 AM (No. 1622154)
"‘People Died’ in the Civil War So Leaders Like Trump Could Be Banned from Ballot"
No, Andy, No.
People died in the Civil War so that democrats like you couldn't own people!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lazyman 12/22/2023 7:47:41 AM (No. 1622156)
His personal war was stopping the kids from throwing his books in the river after high school class.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
privateer 12/22/2023 7:56:25 AM (No. 1622164)
Shylock wants his pound of flesh.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/22/2023 7:56:39 AM (No. 1622165)
This clown was an Assistant U.S. Attorney. he should have been an Assistant Nazi Judge.
It's easy to see why our system of justice is so loused up.
It's filled with lice.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/22/2023 8:03:29 AM (No. 1622172)
Boy, is HE projecting!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
volksford 12/22/2023 8:12:46 AM (No. 1622180)
A real Weasel is this one .
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
philsner 12/22/2023 8:15:22 AM (No. 1622184)
Um, there was no insurrection. And In this country, we cannot throw out due process. The comments of this nit wit are wrong on that ground alone.
Prove it first in an actual impartial court.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
cireskul 12/22/2023 8:30:35 AM (No. 1622188)
I thought they died to free the slaves and make sure "government of the people, by the people and for the people did not perish from this earth". This Weissman guy is real confused.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
franq 12/22/2023 8:46:53 AM (No. 1622193)
Andrew Weissmann? Never heard of him.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
smokincol 12/22/2023 8:47:21 AM (No. 1622194)
simple explanations from simple minds --- good job, Attorney Weissmann
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 12/22/2023 9:21:24 AM (No. 1622217)
I know the democratic elites are smarter than I, and for the life of me I can’t figure out his logic. Can some coherent person explain it to me.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Krause 12/22/2023 10:02:29 AM (No. 1622234)
It's been over 3 years and no one, to my knowledge, has been charged with insurrection. Other than by corrupt 2-bit talking heads.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Rabbiter 12/22/2023 10:09:24 AM (No. 1622243)
. . . And, on top of everything else, it was NOT a unanimous decision! But, I guess, as long as he was making it up as he went along, he might as well go the distance and lie about everything.
Plus, Alan Dershowitz was on OAN last night explaining that the judges' (wrongful) decision was based on Section 3. But they did not read as far as Section 5, which clearly states that CONGRESS shall provide the legislation to enforce the other parts of the amendment, which was clearly not done.
But the dems never let a little thing like guidelines, regulations, or (gasp!) laws to stop them from doing what they want to do.
11 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 12/22/2023 10:10:46 AM (No. 1622245)
An evilscoundrels like Weissmann were hung in those days.
This is one of those people who are only alive because it is illegal to kill them.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
David Key 12/22/2023 10:15:24 AM (No. 1622250)
Four ignorant Political hack given high positions by fiat, saying it was a insurrection does not make it so. Nobody has found any facts that deny the finding by the FBI and other agencies that there were no armed "insurrections" at the protest. The only ones using guns and grenades were the police. I call that a Police violent riot. I don't know about you but to me it takes guns on the side of the so called insurrection to make it an insurrection. Ask the French and the Russians about that.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 12/22/2023 1:22:30 PM (No. 1622358)
People died in the Revolutionary War so that we could be free from totalitarian thugs like Weissmann.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
FunOne 12/22/2023 7:38:58 PM (No. 1622516)
Documents of that era clearly identify the ONLY rationale for the war against the Confederacy was of a singular reason: to save the union. The slavery issue was not addressed as a reason for the war until after the Battle of Antietam--two years into the war.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/22/2023 8:39:39 PM (No. 1622548)
This statement is way beyond Moronic. I have to assume he's one of the SMART Democraps!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
babsathome 12/22/2023 9:00:49 PM (No. 1622558)
Apparently most of the lefties and MSM are ignorant of History. What has me most worried though is the lack of instruction being given in Public Schools. All paperwork and disciplinary problems for teachers to deal with. Kids do NOT get real History. A few generations and our souls are gone. Highly recommend Dan Bongino podcasts on Rumble.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
NYbob 12/23/2023 1:00:02 AM (No. 1622655)
When there is no pushback, no consequences for what they say or do, they will say and do anything. Will we EVER see a rat lawyer investigated, disbarred, or even embarrassed for their crimes? We know uniparty politicians are corrupt and dirty, but how many millions of lawyers are simply subversive tools of globalist creeps like Soros or domestic leftist traitors. IF somehow Weissmann had half of the investigation any Republican of note gets, I'd bet my house we would find a sewer of corruption.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
broken01 12/23/2023 6:32:57 PM (No. 1623186)
Andrew Weissmann= Leftist Putz.
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