Cuckoo Award!

This week’s Cuckoo Award goes to Donald Trump and it is a doozy!

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

The oath of office for the President of the United States.

As Trump tried to weasel out of court case to have him disqualified from the ballot in Colorado.

Trump tells court he had no duty to ‘support’ the US Constitution in bizarre legal defence
The Independent via Yahoo News
By Mike Bedigan
October 12, 2023

Donald Trump has sought to have a lawsuit filed against him in the state of Colorado dismissed, by arguing that, as president, he was not required to “support” the US Constitution.

The bizarre legal defence, put forward by the former president’s attorneys, comes 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 the state under the 14th Amendment.

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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’”.

Here how that little weasel tried to argue out of it that earned him the Cuckoo Award!

“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.