Donald Trump is not currently entitled to presidential immunity from lawsuits accusing him of conspiring with supporters in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as part of a campaign to stay in office, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday.

Based on facts in the complaint, Trump’s Jan. 6 speech outside the White House and other actions in the days leading up to it were not official presidential acts covered by immunity but were instead done in his role as a candidate, the court said.

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