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Sun Apr 2, 2017, 02:47 PM Apr 2017

Federal judge allows lawsuit against Donald Trump for violence at Kentucky rally


Great to see this.




Federal judge allows lawsuit against Donald Trump for violence at Kentucky rally



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/federal-judge-lawsuit-trump-rally-violence-article-1.3016562


BY Jason Silverstein
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS


Sunday, April 2, 2017, 11:46 AM


..... Trump’s lawyers fought for the case to be thrown out, arguing that Trump intended no violence and that his statements were only directed at security personnel.

But the judge didn’t buy that.

“Presumably, if he had intended for protesters to be escorted out by security personnel, Trump would have instructed the intervening audience members to stop what they were doing, rather than offering guidance on how to go about it,” Hale wrote in his decision.


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“(I)t is plausible that Trump’s direction to ‘get 'em out of here’ advocated the use of force...it was an order, an instruction, a command,” the judge added.........................
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