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Background: Violent rioters loyal to President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) Inset: Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom before the continuation of his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in New York. AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool/

Background: Violent rioters loyal to President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) Inset: Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom before the continuation of his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in New York. AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool/

Former President Donald Trump has filed a brief with the Supreme Court saying that when it comes to Jan. 6, his role was one of peacemaker, not instigator.

In his bid to stay on the 2024 presidential ballot in Colorado, Trump filed the brief in his appeal from the Centennial State’s highest court, which ruled that the ex-president is disqualified due to his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, when thousands of his supporters — urged by him to “fight like hell” to keep him in office despite losing the 2020 election — violently overwhelmed law enforcement and breached the building as Congress had begun to certify President Joe Biden’s win. As Law&Crime previously reported, the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision reversed a lower-court ruling that the former president could, indeed, remain an official contender for president despite having “engaged in insurrection.”

The brief insists that he actually did the opposite.

“President Trump did not ‘engage in insurrection,”” the brief says. “The Colorado Supreme Court tried to impute the conduct of others to President Trump. But the [plaintiffs] needed to show that President Trump’s own conduct qualified as ‘insurrection,’ and they cannot make that showing when President Trump never participated in or directed any of the illegal conduct that occurred at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In fact, the opposite is true, as President Trump repeatedly called for peace, patriotism, and law and order.”

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