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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They will drop the suit just as soon as discovery starts!
These LIEberal cockroaches CANNOT withstand the spotlight of truth!
Not off. Just ethnomathematics in action!
Good question; if I were speculate a guess I'd say his white handlers have figured out another way to profit off the work of a black man.
“...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....”
Well, FWIW, they’re not known for being exactly “the sharpest tools in the shed”. Just look at the loony MadMaxiPad, the Milk Duds, Sheila Jackson Lee....and of course, this dimwit. The list is long.
I heard someone ask why the “milk duds” are the most arrogant and ignorant. I told him that I had no idea what he was talking about.
The race of the enemy will be easy to ascertain.
Why do I know that these suits will “have standing.”
Rep. Bennie Thompson gunna get some of that Pelosi ice cream got lawyer.
Me neither.
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