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You're the only one trying to say that doesn't apply to trump.
It's the case Trump's legal team will probably be making, and it's one that a sizeable minority of Colorado's entirely Democrat-appointed Supreme Court seemed to agree with.
To be clear, there's only one angle from which I think Trump gets out of this, if we assume a properly functioning legal system (which is itself, unfortunately, not a guarantee in America). For example, the District Court that originally heard this case said that the president was not an "officer" and thus the insurrection clause does not apply to it. This is patently ridiculous, and contradicts other sections of the US constitution. Obviously a president is an officer of the country over which he presides. A president who is found to have engaged in insurrection should therefore not be allowed to run again.
But until Trump is found guilty in one of the many trials he is currently facing (Fulton County or the DoJ ones would be best), as a matter of law, it wouldn't seem to follow rule of law to take a legal action that depends on that guilt.
He was found, as a matter of fact, to have engaged in insurrection in the same Colorado district Court case you referenced. I don't think you're nearly as informed as you think you are.
You don't think Trump's legal team will make every argument they can? Certainly they'll try the "president isn't an officer and therefore 14th can't apply" angle. They'll also claim that even if it can apply, it shouldn't here because he didn't insurrect.