Rep Bennie Thompson, D-MS
Democrats say any white criticism of POCs is racist (Rasmussen Reports 7/17/2019)
Posted on 02/16/2021 9:12:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The NAACP and Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on Tuesday sued former President Donald Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and two right-wing extremist groups, alleging they conspired to incite the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The lawsuit, which is expected to be joined by other Democratic lawmakers, cites the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act in accusing the defendants of conspiring to prevent Congress from confirming the election of Joe Biden as president.
That law was passed 15 years after the end of the Civil War in response to violence by the racist KKK and its intimidation of members of Congress from the South.
In addition to Trump and Giuliani, the defendants in the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., include the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers groups, whose members are known to have been among the thousands of people who invaded the Capitol last month.
The suit comes three days after Trump was acquitted of inciting the riot at his second impeachment trial by the Senate. Only seven Republicans voted to convict Trump.
Trump for months before Election Day had said without evidence the 2020 presidential contest would be tainted by fraud. He spent two months after his loss to Biden falsely claiming he had won the election and that there was widespread ballot tampering that had swung the official results to the Democrat.
On Jan. 6, shortly before the invasion of the Capitol, Trump, Giuliani and other speakers at a rally outside the White House encouraged supporters to fight to oppose the certification of Biden’s win by a joint session of Congress, which normally is a formality.
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Maybe NOW there will be some authentic evidence
Subpoena Pelosi.
Watch - No Standing - but it will not reported - it will be fun.
This is just ankle biting harassment.
There is no way they are going to prove Trump incited folks
to riot.
“PEACEFULLY!”
Maybe some of these folks need a remedial English class or 25.
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers ... both with known feds in their leadership ... if anyone was wondering what the FBI has been up to while cities were burning.
Ok - open season on BLM!
NAACP has no standing.
My question exactly - standing.
Rep Bennie Thompson, D-MS
Democrats say any white criticism of POCs is racist (Rasmussen Reports 7/17/2019)
A publicity stunt once Rudy and Donald talk discovery they will go away
That law was passed 15 years after the end of the Civil War ...
Someone's arithmetic is off.
We know the Democrats will never stop harassing Trump. They know he’s still the force leading the GOP, and scared out of their minds of him. The Democrats are now moving on to their next Get Trump narrative, and are using Bennie Thompson as the lead on this one so they can throw out the race card!
Discovery is going to be INTERESTING!
Curiously, the Klan Act was drafted by a Republican Congressman, and supported by a Republican Senate. Opposing views were mostly all Democrats. I don’t think this will help convince blacks of much.
And to think that little over a half century ago, the party of George Wallace, Bull Connor, Jim Crow, and the KKK wouldn't have allowed this black man to drink from the same fountain as a white man in Mississippi. Yet today they've got him doing their dirty work--how soon they forget.
How come they get to file a suit and if I did against BLM I would. Be laughed out of the court house?
D I S C O V E R Y ! ! !
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