“I just called her a traitor to our country, put all of her personal information out there for the world to see, and said that something needs to be done. It’s not my fault that my followers took me seriously.” – Trump’s entire defense, paraphrased.

Hopefully, the judges don’t buy this argument. In this day and age, I’m not nearly as confident about that as I used to be. Allowing this to stand essentially invalidates laws against witness intimidation and jury tampering, for starters; a ruling in Trump’s favor would put the first amendment rights of the attacker above the safety of those being attacked, rendering those laws unenforceable.