Democrats just got a campaign talking point

The Trump campaign responded Saturday [...]

“President Trump will once again take the oath of office on January 20th, 2025, and will swear ‘to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said.

  WBEZ

And we have seen what that oath meant to him.

“Has he been advised maybe not to sign it because maybe there’s some legal exposures…given that oath, if he signed it, would be a violation of everything he actually did on Jan. 6th, 2021, and leading up to it?” [Adam] Kinzinger said.

I don't see why. He swore an oath in 2020 that he violated, and he hasn't been held to account yet.

“Pledging not to overthrow our democracy is a hard thing to do when you’ve already attempted it once,” [Gov. JB] Pritzker spokeswoman Christina Amestoy told WBEZ.

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In part of the oath, candidates swear they are not communists nor affiliated with communist organizations. In the latter part of the oath, candidates attest that they “do not directly or indirectly teach or advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state or any unlawful change in the form of the governments thereof by force or any unlawful means.”

So, maybe he's a communist.

Signing it is entirely optional now after federal courts ruled it unconstitutional on free-speech grounds, but Illinois lawmakers left it in state law.

Well, if it's Illinois state law, then he shouldn't be allowed on the ballot in Illinois.

State election records show that Trump’s other GOP primary opponents, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, did not sign the state loyalty oath. Christie signed the document during his 2016 run for president.

Then they shouldn't be on the Illinois ballot, either.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 05:00 pm: