Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) defended the “powerful argument” that former President Donald Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot could prevent him from holding office under the 14th Amendment.
“In my view, the attack on the Capitol that day was designed for a particular purpose at a particular moment,” Kaine said Sunday on ABC’s"This Week." “And that was to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power as laid out in the Constitution. So I think there’s a powerful argument to be made,” adding the issue will likely be"resolved in the courts."While there’s a “powerful argument to be made” that former Pres.
“The language is specific — if you give aid and comfort to those who engage in an insurrection against the constitution of the United States, it doesn’t say against the United States, it says against the constitution,” Kaine said.