The trial in Colorado in which former President Donald Trump faces being removed from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot on the argument he instigated the Jan. 6 “insurrection” began Monday with petitioner lawyers saying Trump told the crowd 20 times to “fight” before they went to the Capitol Hill to riot.
The petitioners’ argument is Trump is ineligible to seek reelection because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection” clause.
The trial is expected to last a week, with the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, on behalf of six voters, suing the Colorado secretary of state and Trump.
On Monday, the petitioners’ lawyers also argued that Trump mentioned only once at the rally outside of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, being “peaceful” because was just him trying to prevent culpability for using “fight.”