Posted on 09/11/2018 2:45:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump on Tuesday won dismissal of a lawsuit in which three protesters accused him of inciting to riot, after they were roughed up at a March 2016 campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky during Trumps White House run.
By a 3-0 vote, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the protesters did not state a valid claim under Kentucky law against Trump or his campaign, and Trumps speech was protected by the First Amendment because he did not specifically advocate violence.
Henry Brousseau, Kashiya Nwanguma and Molly Shah said they had planned a peaceful protest at the March 1, 2016 rally, in which Trump gave a roughly 35-minute speech that was interrupted several times.
They claimed they were assaulted, pushed and shoved, with Brousseau punched in the stomach, and unceremoniously removed after Trump repeatedly exhorted supporters to get em out of here.
But in ordering the dismissal of the incitement-to-riot claim, a misdemeanor, Circuit Judge David McKeague noted that Trump said dont hurt em.
McKeague said this amounted to an express disavowal and discouragement of violence, even if Trump wanted to quell disturbances by having protesters removed....
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
That sums things up quite nicely.
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