Capitol Police Officers File Suit Against Trump, Roger Stone, Proud Boys Over Election Fraud CT

The chickens are coming home to roost on January 6. A new lawsuit, this time by seven Capitol Police officers against Donald Trump, Roger Stone and almost twenty members of far-right extremist groups alleging a plot to disrupt the peaceful transition of power and to spread baseless election fraud lies. New York Times:

The suit contends that Mr. Trump and his co-defendants violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 statute that includes protections against violent conspiracies that interfere with Congress’s constitutional duties. It also accuses the defendants of committing “bias-motivated acts of terrorism” in violation of District of Columbia law.

The use of civil litigation to hold Mr. Trump — and many in his orbit — accountable for the events of Jan. 6 has taken place even as the Justice Department has undertaken the largest criminal investigation in its history into the Capitol attack and a select committee of Congress has opened its own inquiry into the riot. On Wednesday, members of the committee made far-reaching requests to federal agencies for detailed records of Mr. Trump’s movements and meetings on the day of the attack.

The first of the lawsuits was filed in February by the N.A.A.C.P. on behalf of Democratic lawmakers who accused Mr. Trump, his former lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers of conspiring to prevent certification of the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6. […]

While the new lawsuit appears to largely rely on news reports and details gleaned from criminal cases filed by the Justice Department, it takes a broad view of the origins of the attack. It argues that the conspiracy to disrupt the election started as early as May 2020, when Mr. Trump began complaining on social media that mail-in voting could “lead to massive fraud.”

The suit accuses Mr. Stone, Mr. Trump’s longtime aide and ally, of echoing those and other claims, sometimes on right-wing news outlets like Infowars. Mr. Stone, who faced scrutiny early in the Justice Department’s investigation, has long denied any role in the riot.

At a presidential debate in September, the lawsuit notes, Mr. Trump appeared to summon members of the Proud Boys by telling them to “stand back and stand by.” The following month, according to the suit, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, appeared on Infowars, predicting an impending civil war and vowing to post armed members of his group outside Washington in order to “save the White House.”

This is what happens when you have a man in office who has only lived in fantasy and on the set of television shows his entire life. Eventually the adults have to come in and clean house.

Here’s a link if you want to read the suit.

A lawsuit was filed today by Capitol Police Officers against Donald Trump, Roger Stone, Ali Alexander, Brandon Straka, Proud Boys Inc, and several other insurrectionists. https://t.co/ES0v8FgAd8

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 26, 2021

The news of this lawsuit along with the documentation that the January 6 Select Committee is seeking should be enough to make Cantaloupe Caligula’s head explode.