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Donald Trump’s lawyers have hung their defense of his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection on a line from his speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse, but a trio of legal experts say the broader record of his statements and actions undermines that argument. The former claimed last month during a speech that his supporters had acted “peacefully and patriotically,” echoing that key line from his speech that his attorneys have made a centerpiece of his defense since his post-Jan. 6 impeachment, but abundant evidence shows they did not and he didn’t want them to, wrote legal experts Tom Jos…

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