Former President Donald Trump speaks during a Commit to Caucus rally, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Ankeny, Iowa. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney)
Donald Trump, the four-time indicted former president, should be blocked from the 2024 presidential ballots in New York, two Manhattan pols urged the state Board of Elections this week.
In a joint letter sent on Dec. 7, state Senators Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Liz Krueger told board Co-Chairs Peter Kosinski and Doug Kellner that Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol disqualified him from ever being president again under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
An angry mob of Trump supporters, white supremacists and conspiracy theorists raided the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 as Congress convened to certify the 2020 presidential election results — which Joe Biden won and Trump lost. In the weeks leading up to the insurrection, the senators noted, Trump “lit the fire” of the insurrection with a cacophony of baseless election fraud claims rejected by dozens of courts across the country.
Moments before the Capitol attack, Trump parroted many of the phony election theft claims during a “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House, and called for the crowd of thousands to march down to the Capitol in protest. The insurrection left five people dead, and hundreds of people eventually arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to prison terms.
Earlier this year, Trump was indicted on federal charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and incited the Jan. 6 insurrection. The former president has charged that the indictment, and three others against him, are politically-motivated, and has publicly stated that if re-elected, he would exact retribution; in a Fox News interview on Dec. 5, he denied accusations that he would be a dictator, “except for day one.“
Hoylman-Sigal and Krueger, both Democrats, believe Trump’s actions leading up to and on…
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