Lawyers: Trump Didn’t Mean “Fight Like Hell” Literally

CNN reports:

In his speech on January 6, Trump told the crowd to “fight like hell.” “And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” Trump said. In their brief, Trump’s lawyers argued that Trump’s speech about fighting was metaphorical and he did not call for any violence.

“Of the over 10,000 words spoken, Mr. Trump used the word ‘fight’ a little more than a handful of times and each time in the figurative sense that has long been accepted in public discourse when urging people to stand and use their voices to be heard on matters important to them; it was not and could not be construed to encourage acts of violence,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.

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