Andrew Bolt has always claimed his is the right of “free speech” When Judge Mordecai Bromberg found him guilty he whined like a spoilt child. He still does today yet we continue to let Murdoch Sky News anchors get away with blue murder. Australia doesn’t even have American First Amendment protections. It has prohibitively expensive defamation laws that protect the people that work for Murdoch.

“A person cannot walk into a bank and say, ‘stick ’em up,’ and then cling to the First Amendment’s protections.” Similarly, it’s not “free speech” when Trump told people to commit crimes for him, simply because he used his mouth to do so. Even Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, dismissed this gambit by saying, “free speech doesn’t give you the right to engage in a fraudulent conspiracy.” As Barr pointed out, no conspiracy charge could stick if the “conspiring” part was excluded from evidence.

Source: Trump’s Jan. 6 Defense Strategy: “Flood the Zone With Shit” | The Smirking Chimp