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Can Trump be held liable for the Capitol riot?

We’re going to find out. There are 9 civil lawsuits against him seeking damages, and a federal judge heard arguments in 3 of them on Monday, January 10, 2022.

He wasn’t sympathetic to Trump or his lawyers, pointing out “that Trump on January 6 asked the crowd to march to the Capitol [and] didn’t speak up for two hours asking people to stop the violence.”

If you tell someone to burn a house down, and they do it, are you liable? Probably. But in these Capitol riot cases, the judge has to decide whether Trump had presidential immunity, or engaged in protected free speech. Read the story here.

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