ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – On the eve of the three-year anniversary of an attack by supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump on the U.S. Capitol, which has led two states to remove him from the ballot due to his role in the riot, a conservative state senator and gubernatorial candidate in response is seeking to have current President Joe Biden removed as a candidate in Missouri in the upcoming November election.
In a news release Friday, State Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Springs) cites efforts in Maine, Colorado and other states to remove Trump from the ballot under the Insurrection Clause of the U.S. Constitution as the reason he will file legislation attempting to keep Missouri voters from picking Biden as a candidate of their choosing.
“My legislation exposes the absolute absurdity of Colorado’s and Maine’s decisions to remove President Donald J. Trump from the ballot,” Eigel said in the release. “If radical leftists continue to push lies and fairytales in an attempt to kick Trump off the ballot in their states, Republicans have no choice but to buck up and fight back — use the facts to remove Biden from the ballot before he destroys this country even further.”
Court challenges to those states’ efforts to bar Trump are currently underway and will be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Eigel’s argument Biden should be removed is the alleged “aid and comfort” the president has “given our enemies” due to his immigration policies. The release describes the current migrant crisis, which Biden is facing considerable scrutiny for even in his own party, as an “invasion” and cites 8 million illegal crossings.
First Alert 4 reached out to Eigel and asked where the number of 8 million came from. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says there have been 7.2 million encounters between migrants and U.S. immigration during Biden’s presidency, but that does not mean 8 million people entered the country illegally.
The data tracks events and not people. It also doesn’t track expulsions. So, an encounter doesn’t mean someone was let into the country. There have been more than 2 million expulsions from these encounters.
Eigel’s release comes on the eve of the three-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, where supporters of former president Trump shattered windows, assaulted law enforcement officers and sent lawmakers on both sides of the aisle running for their lives.
Just before supporters of the former president stormed the U.S. Capitol, Trump repeatedly denied the outcome of the election without providing any evidence of fraud. His claims have been rejected in at least 60 court cases, and Trump is currently under a federal indictment filed by special counsel Jack Smith, accusing him of conspiracy to defraud the nation over the election.
“Democrats only believe in democracy when it favors them — let’s expose their double standard hypocrisy,” Eigel said in the release. “We must stand our ground to protect the security of our nation and the sovereignty of our people.”
Trump’s speech and actions during the attack and in the days following were the subject of a bipartisan congressional select committee investigation, which, according to its report, found “President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation, targeting either State legislators or State or local election administrators, to overturn State election results.”
Missouri Secretary of State and fellow Republican gubernatorial candidate Jay Ashcroft suggested Friday he would also back removing Biden from the ballot in Missouri unless the Supreme Court overturns rulings in Maine and Colorado.
“What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful and undermines our republic,” Ashcroft posted on X, formally Twitter. “While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden.”
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