Trump sued by Jan. 6 police officers to block DOJ lawfare fund
Two police officers who defended the US Capitol during the riot on January 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, seeking to block the new $1.8 billion “legal” fund established by the United States. Ministry of Justice To pay compensation to Trump allies who claim they were victims of prosecutorial overreach.
“In this century’s most brazen act of presidential corruption, President Donald J. Trump created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance insurgents and paramilitary groups committing violence in his name.” Case in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.., he says.
“The fund created the style of ‘Anti-Armament Fund’ “The case is illegal,” he claimed.
“No law permits its creation, the solution on which it is based is a corrupt fraud, and its design violates the Constitution and federal law.”
The two plaintiffs in the civil complaint are Harry Dunn, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer, and Daniel Hodges, an active officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington. In addition to Trump, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are among the defendants in the case.
DC Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges (left), U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn (right) and Michael Fanone, a former DC Metropolitan Police Officer, arrive at the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol hearing to present previously unseen material and hear witness testimony at the Cannon Building on Thursday, June 9, 2022.
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Dunn and Hodges were at the Capitol when they were attacked by a mob of Trump supporters, disrupting a joint session of Congress held that day to confirm Joe Biden’s electoral victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
The Justice Department said Monday that Blanche created the fund as part of a $10 billion lawsuit brought by Trump, his two eldest sons and the Trump Organization against the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over the leak of Trump tax records by an IRS employee.
Blanche is Trump’s former criminal defense attorney.
The Justice Department said the fund would “provide a systematic process to hear and redress the claims of gun and other persons subject to civil sanctions.”
“Weaponization” and “due process” are terms commonly used by Trump’s allies; These include the Jan. 6 riot criminals, their lawyers and legal advisors, and others who are the subject of Justice Department and state prosecutors’ investigations in connection with Trump’s false claims that Biden won the 2020 election with widespread voter fraud.
“The Fund will have the authority to provide formal apologies and financial relief owed to plaintiffs,” the Justice Department said in a statement Monday. he said. “The submission of the request is voluntary. There are no partisan requirements to submit the request.”
Democrats in Congress have called the fund a corrupt “slush fund.”
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