claim: President Trump said that Americans had no right to protest against him.
origin: On 22 April 2017, the web site Learn Progress published an article under the misleading and sensationalized title â€œTrump Says Americans Have â€œNo Rightâ€ to Protest Him. TYRANNYâ€: < In one of his most alarming moves yet, Donald Trump just had his lawyer file a motion claiming the American people have â€œno rightâ€ to protest President Orange. This is a DIRECT affront to our 1st Amendment rights and Trumpâ€™s boldest tyrannical power play yet. > Although Trump has called protests against him â€œunfairâ€ and has alleged without evidence that protesters were paid, he has not said that the American people have no right to protest against him. Three protesters filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump after they were ejected from a campaign rally in March 2016, arguing that TrumpÂ had incited violence against them. Lawyers representing TrumpÂ arguedÂ in a court filing that the President had acted legally as the protesters had â€œno rightâ€ to express a dissenting view at his rallies since it violated Trumpâ€™s right to â€œchoose the content of his own message.â€ Hereâ€™s the text in question: < Of course, protestors have their own First Amendment right to express dissenting views, but they have no right to do so as part of the campaign rally of the political candidates they oppose. Indeed, forcing the â€œprivate organizersâ€ of a political rally to accept everyone â€œwho wish[es] to join in with some expressive demonstration of their ownâ€ would â€œviolate[] the fundamental rule of protection under the First Amendment, that a speaker has the autonomy to choose the content of his own message.â€ Id. at 573. > Although Trumpâ€™s lawyers argued that the protesters had â€œno rightâ€ to protest at his campaign rally, the President did not say that this applied to all Americans protesting against him at other times or locations.Â Â