HARTFORD, CT – Earlier in September, Democrat Connecticut Attorney General William Tong proclaimed before a crowd gathered in Hartford that individuals who “support” President Donald Trump and “stand” with his actions in office are “disqualified from serving in office” in Connecticut.
AG Tong’s political leanings and sentiments toward the current president are hardly a secret, as his office recently announced another lawsuit aimed at the Trump administration’s attempt to put an end to illegal immigrants becoming a burden on the public dole. This past August, AG Tong was also a party to a lawsuit against the Trump administration regarding imposed tariffs, as well as filing another lawsuit over efforts to prevent illegal aliens from obtaining CDLs.
Yet on September 10, AG Tong deviated from the typical lawfare against the president to instead proclaim that purported “acolytes” of President Trump are on notice in Connecticut, with a hyperbolic assertion that said “MAGA” candidates are “disqualified” from running for public office in the state.
“I think it's high time every single Republican candidate tells us in this state where you stand. Do you stand with Donald Trump, or do you stand with us? Because how can you support this president when he has tried to take all federal funding away from Connecticut? If you stand with him now, you're disqualified from serving in office in this state,” AG Tong stated before the crowd during the September 10 press briefing.
Preceding AG Tong’s proclamation of supposed “MAGA” candidates being “disqualified” from running for office, an assertion which clearly is unenforceable and can be chalked up to campaign rhetoric, he went on a diatribe about grievances pertaining to gas prices, tariffs, education budgets, and his personal disdain for federal immigration enforcement.
“If you're tired of $100 a barrel for gas, that shows up as $4, $5, $6 for gasoline here in Connecticut and across the country, stand with this ticket now. If you're tired of these tariffs, stand with us now. If you're tired of your school budgets being decimated, stand with us now. If you're tired of ICE terrorizing your communities so that people are afraid to go to school or go to work, stand with Democrats right now,” AG Tong stated.
In late August, ICE conducted operations in Connecticut, resulting in 118 arrests over the span of a single week of illegal aliens, many of whom had prior charges ranging from “sexual assault against a child, child abuse, weapons charges, drug dealing and assault,” according to a press release from the agency. According to AG Tong’s expressed sentiments on September 10, he is seemingly upset that child predators are being removed from the streets of Connecticut.
An opinion editorial published by the Connecticut Centinal was highly critical of AG Tong’s “purity test,” as the outlet put it, with the outlet emphasizing, “Nearly 42% of Connecticut voters picked Trump. Local voters do not need their attorney general weaponizing an ideological gatekeeping test before a Republican candidate is allowed to speak about the high cost of living in the state.”
Comments
2026-09-16T18:27-0400 | Comment by: Dennis
Communism is firmly in control of Connecticut
2026-09-16T20:09-0400 | Comment by: arthur
This guy right here, by virtue of his comments, is simply trying to remove any and all political obsticals, and anyone they would have a different view, or possibly disagree with him, which I'm thinking would be a lot of people. This guy, like many we now have in office, really needs to be removed, and quickly.
2026-09-16T21:48-0400 | Comment by: James
This communist idiot nees to be arrested! Another Chinese asshole!
2026-09-17T07:36-0400 | Comment by: gracey
they want more communist democrats, that think they are kings, with “rules and laws for thee, but not for me”, that do not want voter ID so they can cheat on elections, that do not believe “all men are created equal”, that are Godless supporters of the iranian death cult, they hate Donald Trump so much they eat their own feces, claiming illegal border insurgents are emigrants, using stolen money from American taxpayers for their own purposes, committing fraud, weaponizing illegal border insurgents with CDL truck driving licenses, that have a record of killing Americans just to name a few; Lizbeth Medina, Anya Varfolomeev, Nikolay Osokin, Dacara Thompson, Nate Baker, Laken Riley, Fletcher Harris, Skylar Provenza, Ivory Smith, Alex Wise Jr, Katie Abraham, Jocelyn Nungaray, Jennifer Ann Morton, and possibly more….democrats are liars, hate Americans, aiding and abetting illegal border insurgents, trans gender groomers, pedophiles, antifa, drug cartels, human trafficking, murderers, rapists, money launderers, defunding police, defunding ICE, defunding TSA, and supports communists to destroy America, therefore voting for any democrat for any office is a vote to destroy America. Period! Only the really stupid and lazy, and illegal fake voter ballots, vote for this bunch.
2026-09-17T07:36-0400 | Comment by: gracey
communist democrats, that think they are kings, with “rules and laws for thee, but not for me”, that do not want voter ID so they can cheat on elections, that do not believe “all men are created equal”, that are Godless supporters of the iranian death cult, they hate Donald Trump so much they eat their own feces, claiming illegal border insurgents are emigrants, using stolen money from American taxpayers for their own purposes, committing fraud, weaponizing illegal border insurgents with CDL truck driving licenses, that have a record of killing Americans just to name a few; Lizbeth Medina, Anya Varfolomeev, Nikolay Osokin, Dacara Thompson, Nate Baker, Laken Riley, Fletcher Harris, Skylar Provenza, Ivory Smith, Alex Wise Jr, Katie Abraham, Jocelyn Nungaray, Jennifer Ann Morton, and possibly more….democrats are liars, hate Americans, aiding and abetting illegal border insurgents, trans gender groomers, pedophiles, antifa, drug cartels, human trafficking, murderers, rapists, money launderers, defunding police, defunding ICE, defunding TSA, and supports communists to destroy America, therefore voting for any democrat for any office is a vote to destroy America. Period! Only the really stupid and lazy, and illegal fake voter ballots, vote for this bunch.