Former President Donald Trump compared Colorado's Supreme Court decision to bar him from the state ballot in the upcoming Republican presidential primary to a "banana republic."
Trump made a series of posts panning the state Supreme Court's decision to his social media site Truth Social.
"BIDEN SHOULD DROP ALL OF THESE FAKE POLITICAL INDICTMENTS AGAINST ME," Trump wrote Wednesday morning. "BOTH CRIMINAL & CIVIL."
"EVERY CASE I AM FIGHTING IS THE WORK OF THE DOJ & WHITE HOUSE," he continued. "NO SUCH THING HAS EVER HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTRY BEFORE."
"BANANA REPUBLIC??? ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!" Trump concluded.
Shortly after his first post, Trump followed up, "A SAD DAY IN AMERICA!!!"
"WHAT A SHAME FOR OUR COUNTRY!!!" Trump added in a third post.
The former President also shared a video from George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley who referred to Colorado's Tuesday decision as "very dangerous."
“This court just handed partisans on both sides the ultimate tool to try and shortcut elections and it’s very, very dangerous," Turley said in the video during his Fox News appearance. "This country is a powder keg, and this court is just throwing matches at it. And I think that it’s a real mistake,”
“To call [the January 6 riot] an insurrection for the purposes of disqualification would create a slippery slope for every state in the union,” Turley continued. “This is a time when we actually need democracy. We need to allow the voters to vote. We need to hear their decision. And the court here just said you’re not going to get that.”
Shortly after Colorado's decision, entrepreneur and fellow Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced he would remove himself from the Colorado GOP primary ballot "unless and until" Trump's name is restored.
"The basic principle that we the people select our leadership. Not the unelected elite class in the back of palace halls," Ramaswamy said. "That's old-world Europe, not the United States." The entrepreneur also challenged fellow Republican candidates, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, to follow his lead and withdraw from the state GOP primary ballot. "Or else these Republicans are simply complicit in this unconstitutional attack on the way we conduct our constitutional republic," he added. "I refuse to be complicit in that." Ramaswamy said Colorado's decision was wrong and urged Republicans to "step up and stand up with a spine" for the future of America.
