The federal government provided aid and comfort to the state of Colorado in its efforts to remove Donald Trump from the ballot.
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
The claim that the federal government gave 'aid and comfort' to Colorado in its effort to remove Trump from the ballot is a characterization the sources do not directly address: they cover the 2023 Colorado ballot case and later federal DOJ actions against Colorado, but none states the federal government aided Colorado's removal effort, and the passage's own assertion is.
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… That's the most on the nose communism, right? The Republicans are still pushing communism. They're just doing it in more subversive ways. Because they're two sides of the same coin, but the federal government, what we saw was the federal government give aid and comfort to the state of Colorado as they were trying to remove President Trump from the ballot. We saw, in my opinion, based on the information available, the Department of Justice under Joe Biden put their thumb on the scale of justice in multiple cases, including mine. …
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Context. The 2023 Colorado removal case was brought by six Colorado voters against Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who was a defendant and took no position on the ballot question, per PolitiFact.[1]
Context. The Colorado Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling in December 2023 removed Trump from the primary ballot, and the case was later reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which reversed it in Trump v. Anderson.[3][4][5]
Context. Federal DOJ actions against Colorado (voter data demands and a lawsuit dismissed in 2026) are separate from the 2023 ballot-removal litigation and do not address federal involvement in it.[6][7][8]
Context. AP fact-checked a false claim about Colorado Supreme Court Justice Monica Márquez being arrested by the Marines for the ballot ruling; this is unrelated to any federal aid to the removal effort.[2]
Sources
8 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 3 primary, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1X posts miscast Colorado official's role in lawsuit to get Trump off the ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2False report targets Colorado justice who voted to ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Disqualification of a Candidate for the Presidency, Part I: Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment as It Applies to the Presidencycongress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 4Trump v. Anderson: Did the Colorado Supreme Court Err in ...constitution.congress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 5News analysis: Why Trump was removed from Colorado ballotfirstamendment.mtsu.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 6Trump's DOJ makes its most sweeping demand for election ...npr.org · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 7DOJ fights to overturn Colorado ruling on sensitive voter rollssentinelcolorado.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8US District judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit against Colorado over voter rollscpr.org · not rated · cited for: context
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