Their lawsuit alleges Trump administration’s $1.8 billion compensation program will fund and encourage acts of political violence.
The two officers accused the administration of creating a “slush fund” to reward rioters and groups that committed violence on behalf of President Trump.
Two law enforcement officers who battled Jan. 6 rioters at the Capitol in 2021 filed a suit Wednesday to dissolve President Trump's $1.8 billion fund for victims of alleged weaponized political prosecutions.Why it matters: Critics have called the taxpayer-funded fund "illegal," but experts say it's unclear who would have legal standing to challenge it in…
Jan. 6 officers sue over $1.8B pot they call ‘slush fund’ for ‘insurrectionists’
Police who responded to the US Capitol riots involving President Donald Trump’s supporters in 2021 are suing to block the creation of a government “anti-weaponization” fund, alleging that it’s “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century.”
The $1.776 billion fund, which is part of the agreement to settle Trump's lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury Dept., is to be used to compensate those who claim that the government weaponized the legal system against them.
Two police officers who fended off rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block President Trump’s nearly $1.8 billion fund set to bankroll purported victims of “weaponization.” Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges claim that the fund will be used to pay out…
Former police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration’s newly created $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” arguing it could compensate rioters who assaulted law enforcement during the riot. The lawsuit contends the fund violates constitutional…
Two officers who defended the US Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riots filed a lawsuit to thwart the setting up of a $1.8 billion pool of money set aside for victims of federal government weaponization, arguing it encourages violence by "rioters, paramilitaries and their supporters."
