The US state of Maine announced Thursday that Donald Trump would not appear on the ballot in the Republican primary for the 2024 presidential election, a week after a similar decision in Colorado, in connection with the assault on the Capitol in 2021 .
“He is not fit for the office of president” under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which excludes from any public responsibility people who have engaged in acts of “insurrection”, declared in an official document the Democratic Secretary of the State of Maine, Shenna Bellows, responsible for organizing the elections.
Maine’s decision will be challenged in court by Donald Trump, his campaign spokesperson announced, and could be the subject of a final appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Donald Trump quickly condemned a decision taken according to him by “a radical leftist”, “ardent supporter” of Joe Biden.
“We are witnessing live an attempt to steal an election and the deprivation of the American voter’s right to vote,” denounced the Republican through his campaign team.
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol, the sanctuary of American democracy, to try to prevent the certification of the victory of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
Donald Trump and his most fervent supporters still dispute, without proof, the results of the 2020 election.
The ex-president was indicted on 1er August at the federal level then on August 14 by the state of Georgia, accused of having sought to reverse the results of the 2020 election.
Several procedures have been launched in various states across the country to block the path of the big favorite in the Republican primaries. If Michigan and Minnesota rejected them, the Colorado Supreme Court was the first, last week, to declare Donald Trump ineligible because of his actions during the assault on the Capitol.