Was it a solicitation of violence or free speech? A federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, has acquitted a man who suggested someone should kill President Donald Trump.

Federal prosecutors had argued that 63-year-old Peter Stinson, who had served more than three decades as a Coast Guard officer repeatedly called for someone to assassinate Trump, through a series of social media posts, dating to 2020.

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Stinson often used derisive nicknames to identify Trump in posts on Twitter, which is now known as X, and on Bluesky.

In an April

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