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Colorado stunner: Ballot ruling against Trump could aid him

The Colorado Supreme Court may have just put a big gift under Donald Trump’s Christmas tree. 

In fact, the court’s blockbuster 4-3 ruling Tuesday disqualifying the former president from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot presents him with multiple gifts: It fuels his argument that a politicized American legal system is out to “get” him – and deprive voters of their choice of candidates. It has spurred even his fiercest GOP presidential primary foes to rush to his defense. And it deflects attention from the latest Trump controversy, rhetoric on immigrants that has summoned Hitler comparisons. 

The Colorado high court ruled that former President Trump had engaged in “insurrection” and was therefore ineligible to

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