“What if a large group of people, angry at Congress, gathered on the Washington Mall, some of whom have firearms, and are known to have firearms, and a leader stood in front of them, here, right in front of them, not in another country, and said, ‘Go down the street and fight like hell. I’ll be there with you,’” said Judge Stephanie Thacker, an Obama appointee on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Thacker raised Trump’s speech as federal prosecutor Gordon Kromberg tried to defend the 2005 convictions of Muslim scholar and cancer researcher Ali Al-Timimi for encouraging more than a dozen young men to travel to Pakistan for military training to prepare to defend the Taliban in Afghanistan against an expected U.S. attack after Sept. 11, 2001. A judge last fall overturned some of Al-Timimi’s convictions.

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