Donald Trump didn’t submit a loyalty oath that political candidates in Illinois have been signing for more than a half century asserting that they won’t “advocate the overthrow of the government” — a pledge that holds new resonance on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
That’s a departure that his presidential campaign isn’t explaining after Trump signed and submitted the document to Illinois election authorities for the 2016 and 2020 elections, when he ran against Democrats Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden.
