White Nationalist Files Suit Claiming Trump Incited Him To Remove Protesters

A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yells at protestors who were chanting "Black Lives Matter," while Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in New Orleans, Friday, March 4, 2016. (AP Photo/... A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yells at protestors who were chanting "Black Lives Matter," while Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in New Orleans, Friday, March 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) MORE LESS
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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:

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  1. Well, here’s a pretty howdy-do

  2. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    Time for more popcorn.

  3. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    The Devil made him do it… Anyone think that trump will cover his attorney’s fees?

  4. A point of clarification for TPM:

    The white nationalist did not “file” a “lawsuit.”

    He was already a co-defendant in an existing case. He was sued, alongside Trump, in the pending case filed by the three plaintiffs who got the favorable ruling last week that allows them to go forward against Trump.

    In this document, the co-defendant filed a combined “answer,” denying the claims against him, and “cross-claim” against Trump, alleging that any liability of his is actually Trump’s because Trump gave the instructions.

    A Nazi claiming that he was following orders, and passing the buck to the Fuehrer himself.

    Only in America.

  5. “America first” = “Blame others”

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