White Nationalist Files Suit Claiming Trump Incited Him To Remove Protesters

[DonViejo]

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 Trump’s 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]

1. OMG a lawyer is actually arguing

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]

2. Could these people be any more horrible?

[jberryhill]

3. Another great example of how journalists fuck up legal reporting

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]

5. That's How I Read it Too

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]

4. If we could harness the stupid

We could power the world!