The complaint seeks to hold former President Donald Trump liable for the insurrection that the Senate only days earlier acquitted him of having incited.
Chairman Bennie G. Thompson of the House Committee on Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., on September 17, 2020. (Photo by John McDonnell/The Washington Post via AP)
WASHINGTON (CN) In the first of what is expected to be a mountain of litigation filed against the former president, a Democratic congressman brought a federal complaint accusing Donald Trump of inciting last month’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning in Washington by Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. According to NAACP lawyers who are representing the Black lawmaker, other Democrats in Congress, including Representative Hank Johnson of Georgia and Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, are expected to join as plaintiffs in the coming weeks.
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WASHINGTON –The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security on Thursday continued its effort to assess what transpired leading up to the deadly insurrection that occurred on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
“Today, we will begin to shed light on why these warnings were not heeded,” said Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss. “The irrefutable fact is that the threat of right-wing and more specifically, white nationalist terrorism has been growing for years.”
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