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By ESME CRIBB Published APRIL 17, 2017, 7:23 PM EDT
White nationalist Matthew Heimbach, who allegedly assaulted a protester at a campaign rally for President Donald Trump in March 2016, on Monday filed a lawsuit claiming that Trump directed him and other rally attendees to remove protesters.
Heimbach denied physically assaulting protesters in the suit. He nevertheless claimed that he acted in self defense and in reasonable defense of others, and did so pursuant to the directives and requests of Donald J. Trump and Donald J. Trump for President.
Any liability must be shifted to one or both of them, the suit reads.
On Friday, a federal judge allowed a lawsuit by three protesters assaulted at the same campaign rally to move forward, agreeing that Trumps call for supporters to remove the protesters at least implicitly encouraged the use of violence or lawless action.
Read the filing:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/white-nationalist-files-suit-claiming-trump-incited-him-to-remove-protesters
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)that if somebody tells his client to jump off a bridge, he would.
I can see liability on Trump's part for the victims, but for the aggressors? AYFKM?
Initech
(100,102 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)This is not a "lawsuit filed by one of the supporters".
This is an an answer filed by the defendants in which they include a number of "form defenses" and cross claims.
It's not a different lawsuit. It's a filing in the one which was already going on.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)And, i'm not a lawyer like you. I thought from the reading it was pretty clear but the lead was different than the details.
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)We could power the world!