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Originally Posted by Rococo
Good luck with that defense.
I think the case is, at least, interesting.
If the rioters go with some combination of the "POTUS asked us to rise up and act' and 'the police aided and abated', and lean more on the former than the latter, I think it poses an interesting question.
Imagine leaders throughout history (Churchill, Abe Lincoln, etc) telling the citizens 'our Democracy is at risk of insurrection from within and you 'the citizens' are the last stand and must rise up and fight or we will lose our country', and the citizens believing do rise up.
Is there not some mitigation to their liability if the call by the leader, turns out to be fraudulent? How would a jury see it?