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Do you believe that your 1st Amendment allows you to blatantly lie, sew discourse, and to perpetuate a mob because you encouraged this behavior?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/prosecutors-ask-judge-to-issue-protective-order-after-trump-post-appearing-to-promise-revenge_n_64cdc197e4b0313d2fcb2199?pq
Prosecutors Ask Judge To Issue Protective Order After Trump Post Appearing To Promise Revenge

The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington to step in after he released a post online that appeared to promise revenge on anyone who goes after him. The president’s spokesperson later defended the Truth Social entry as “the definition of political speech.”
Prosecutors asked U. S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to issue a protective order in the case a day after Trump pleaded not guilty to charges of trying to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss and block the peaceful transition of power. The order — which is different from a so-called “gag order” — would limit what sensitive information Trump and his legal team could share publicly about the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith.

Such protective orders are common in criminal cases, but prosecutors said it’s “particularly important in this case” because Trump has issued “public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys and others associated with legal matters pending against him.”
They pointed specifically to a post on Trump’s Truth Social platform from earlier Friday in which Trump wrote, in all capital letters, “If you go after me, I’m coming after you.”

Do you believe that your 1st Amendment allows you to blatantly lie, sew discourse, and to perpetuate a mob because you encouraged this behavior?
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