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A Kentucky federal judge has ruled that a startling lawsuit accusing then-candidate Donald Trump of inciting violence at a campaign rally last year can proceed. The suit was brought forward by three protesters who say they were roughed up by three Trump supporters that the newly-elected president had provoked. The Trump supporters are also being sued.

Trump told the audience at a Louisville rally in March 2016 to “get ‘em out of here,” referring to the protesters — two women and a teenage boy — who were at the Kentucky International Convention Center. The confrontation that followed was caught on video footage that went viral.

Trump’s attorneys argued that the suit should not be allowed to go forward because his speech was protected under the First Amendment — and that he didn’t intend for violence to occur.

U.S. District Judge David Hale ruled that the protesters’ injuries may have been a “direct and proximate result” of Trump’s actions, and that there is no First Amendment protection for speech that incites violence.

“It is plausible that Trump’s direction to ‘get ’em out of here’ advocated the use of force,” Hale wrote in his ruling issued Friday. “It was an order, an instruction, a command. Trump’s statement at least implicitly encouraged the use of violence or lawless action.”

One of the men accused of participating in the attack, Alvin Bamberger, said in a letter cited by the judge: “Trump kept saying, ‘get them out, get them out,’ and people in the crowd began pushing and shoving the protesters. I physically pushed a young woman.”

Plaintiffs Kashiya Nwanguma, Molly Shah and Henry Brousseau are suing Trump and the Trump campaign for incitement to riot, negligence, as well as gross negligence and recklessness. They are seeking unspecified damages.

The judge dismissed part of the suit claiming that Trump and the campaign were “vicariously liable” for assault and battery. Hale said that the men accused of attacking the protesters — who are also being sued — were not employed by the Trump campaign, nor were they under Trump’s direct control.

 

[Slime]

All these L's

 

[Christian]

Well, good news for Trump, if you settle out of court, it means you're not guilty.

 

[EatinOlives]

People forget, but his rallies were packed with hate-filled savages acting like neanderthals. People went actively looking to throw punches.

 

[Slayven]

Kentucky federal judge

Interesting

 

[How About No]

What's that? Words have consequences?

 

[Melkezadek]

People forget, but his rallies were packed with hate-filled savages acting like neanderthals. People went actively looking to throw punches.

This is why the "give him a chance crowd" piss me off so much. They pretend like none of that happened.

 

[Any Questions]

The pain keeps coming. On some level i actually feel sorry for the fool.

Trouble is..... Trump is your president.

He is like a rabid dog who needs putting down but nobody wants to step out and do the deed for fear of missing and getting bitten.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

 

[theignoramus]

I see too many ways for Trump's lawyers to muddy the waters about what "get 'em out of here" meant.
I wish Trump couldve been charged with public incitement though when he offered to pay the legal fees of supporters who assaulted protesters.

 

[Madness]

People forget, but his rallies were packed with hate-filled savages acting like neanderthals. People went actively looking to throw punches.

Yeah, I think this won't really win. That candidate is now President, and 'Get em out of here' can mean anything. It can proceed as a lawsuit sure but won't go anywhere. There was a rally where he said much worse, that is where you could make the case of inciting violence. These kinds of cases are very tricky. But just crazy what a shitty President this is. Can't wait for the tweet accusing Kentucky judges of being democrat activists.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

People forget, but his rallies were packed with hate-filled savages acting like neanderthals. People went actively looking to throw punches.

No doubt, shit was disgusting. I also think this was the rally with had some white supremacist dude pushing one of these girls around.

 

[Punjicide]

Good. Between this and the courts blocking his travel ban again, I'm glad that his words are finally coming back to bite him.

 

[Dead Prince]

Take Kentucky hate to the next rally

 

[theignoramus]

No doubt, shit was disgusting. I also think this was the rally with had some white supremacist dude pushing one of these girls around.

Black woman pushed and shoved at Trump rally by grown men

It sure was. And Trump supporters responded by asking what the lady had done to "make the crowd upset", as if she'd brought the assaults upon herself. That was the point I mentally decided that Trump supporters, as a collective, were gutter filth.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

Just a reminder.

 

[Fat4all]

I can dig it

 

[bodyboarder]

 

[Amalthea]

He's the fucking Mobster in Chief.

 

[Sevenfold]

All these L's

and such tiny hands.

 

[mclem]

I see too many ways for Trump's lawyers to muddy the waters about what "get 'em out of here" meant.

Why am I reminded of Let Him Have It? I think there's much more of an argument in favour of Derek Bentley's innocence, and he was executed for it.