You cannot believe this audio. Gianforte just lost it and took it out on @bencjacobs. WOW. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhoH4v8xYlU …
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A huge number (by Montana standards) of votes in this election have already been cast by mail. So hard to say if incident affects outcome
Not to get all Torts professor-y: even if Jacobs were threatening offensive contact (e.g. assault), Gianforte's touching disproportionate
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So this appears to be a battery even if Gianforte's account were accurate (and it appears not, given audio, broken glasses, witnesses, etc.)
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So his statement is an admission of battery. Well played crisis PR Team.
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In fact, it is so clearly a case of a battery by Gianforte that I couldn't give it to my students as an exam hypo because it is too easy.
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and you can ask my students---my Torts exams don't have easy hypos (though last one featured
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So if Gianforte loses, will GOP dismiss it as about a hothead and not about Trump/health care dragging them down?
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I see civil claims for assault and maybe slander. Crim charges of assault and possibly false statement to investigator.
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