The Colorado Supreme Court's decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the Colorado presidential ballot in 2024 is inconsistent with critical facts in the timeline of events that occurred on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. The Court's conclusion that Trump incited an insurrection is largely based on words that Trump spoke after the barricades at the Capitol were first breached.
In Anderson v. Griswold, the Court ruled that Trump engaged in insurrection, largely basing its decision on the phrase in Trump's January 6 speech in which he said "Fight, we fight like hell." Although the Court gave other reasons, the Court made it clear that this phrase was a significant reason for its decision.
"The district court then identified specific incendiary language in President Trump's speech at the Ellipse on January 6 President Trump announced,"we're going to walk down, and I'll be with you, we're going to walk down to the Capitol" He "used the word 'fight' In short, the district court found that President Trump's speech at the Ellipse "Was understood by a portion of the crowd as, a call to arms."
Based largely on Trump's "Fight" phrase, the Colorado district court judge concluded that Trump engaged in insurrection, as seen on pages 43 & 45-46 of her decision.
The barricades at the Capitol were first breached at 1:00 p.m. Because the phrase "Fight, we fight like hell" was spoken by Trump two minutes before the speech ended at 1:12 p.m., he spoke the phrase at 1:10 p.m. Given that the barricades were first breached at 1:00 p.m., and Trump's delivery of the "Fight" phrase took place at 1:10 p.m., Trump's speech could not have caused the breach of the barricades.
Although the loudspeaker system was massive, it is highly doubtful that the people breaching the barricades could hear Trump from the loudspeaker system, and neither the district court nor the Colorado Supreme Court provide any evidence that anybody who breached the barricades were listening to Trump's speech.
The Colorado Supreme Court does not tell us who was incited to breach the barricades at the Capitol by Trump's phrase "Fight, we fight like hell." Where is the evidence that those who breached the barricades were incited to do it by that part of Trump's speech? Where is the evidence that those who were inside the Capitol building were incited to stay there by that part of Trump's speech? The Colorado Supreme Court largely based its opinion on Trump's phrase "Fight, we fight like hell" when that phrase could not have caused the breach of the barricades.
https://spectator.org/colorado-supreme-court-jan-6th-timeline-fail/
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