"The United States has lost its ability to lecture any other country about 'democracy,'" Nayib Bukele stated.
Trump's disqualification marks the first time a state court determined that he, the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, will be excluded from a ballot.
An advance sheet headnote on the matter states that "President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution," and that since "he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot."
Outrage ensued from Trump himself and also Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who pledged to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump was allowed back on the ballot.
“This is what an actual attack on democracy looks like," Ramaswamy said, "in an un-American, unconstitutional, and unprecedented decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado. Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever holding office again: the 14th Amendment," he said.
Bukele is the 43rd president of El Salvador, part of his self-founded Nuevas Ideas party which rejects both left- and right-wing labels.
