D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, left, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, right, and Michael Fanone, former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer, arrive to present previously unseen material to the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol and hear testimony from witnesses at the Canon Building on Thursday, June 9, 2022.
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Two police officers who defended the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021 riot sued President Donald Trump on Wednesday, seeking to block the $1.8 billion “Lawfare” fund. Department of Justice To compensate Trump associates who claim they were victims of prosecutorial overreach.
“In the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century, President Donald J. Trump has created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance insurgents and paramilitary groups that carry out violence in his name.” Lawsuit in US District Court in Washington, DC., They say.
“The fund called the ‘Anti-Weapons Fund’ is illegal,” the lawsuit alleges.
“No statute authorizes its construction, the agreement on which it is based is a corrupt sham, and its design violates the Constitution and federal law.”
The two plaintiffs in the civil complaint are Harry Dunn, a former US Capitol Police officer, and Daniel Hodges, an active-duty officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington.
Dunn and Hodges were at the Capitol when a mob of Trump supporters stormed it, disrupting a joint session of Congress that was being held that day to affirm Joe Biden’s electoral victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
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