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Trump hails Supreme Court ballot ruling in unhinged Mar-a-Lago speech about Isis, Hillary Clinton and migrants

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Former president Donald Trump celebrated a legal victory on Monday after the Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s decision to remove him from its presidential primary ballot under Section Three of the 14th Amendment.

For months, Mr Trump had been fighting Colorado, as well as other states, for invoking the novel “insurrection clause” to disqualify him from the state’s ballot.

The former president was accused of aiding an insurrection when a mob of his supporters

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