In a filing days before the nation's top court considers the case for removing him from the Colorado ballot, Trump's lawyers argued that taking him off would be 'anti-democratic', similar to recent actions in Venezuela. His lawyers are appealing the decision by Colorado to disqualify him from running in that state because of an anti-insurrection clause in the Constitution.
'There was no `insurrection,'' Trump's lawyers wrote. 'President Trump did not `incite' anything, and President Trump did not `engage in' anything that constitutes `insurrection.'