The Democratic congressman claims that Trump directly incited the violence.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, DC, Friday, the Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell sued former President Donald Trump and some of his allies, including his son, Donald Trump Jr., personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and GOP Rep. Mo. Brooks on their alleged roles in the events leading up to and around the January 6 attack on Capitol.
In the 65-page case, Swalwell, who was an accusation manager of the House during Trump’s second Senate trial, claims that they all directly incited the violence at the US Capitol by raising a “clear call to action”. set to which the crowd responded.
“Trump directly incited the violence at the Capitol and then approvingly watched the building being raided,” the lawsuit alleges.
“While Trump had instructed them to go to the Capitol, insurgents had already forced themselves through barriers and tried to break into the building while blowing Trump’s speech on a bullhorn,” it reads.
It also alleges that the accused also violated federal laws, including DC’s law on terrorism.
“After we failed miserably with two accusations, [Swalwell is] to attack our biggest president with another witch-hunt, “Trump adviser Jason Miller told ABC News in response to the lawsuit. House Intelligence Committee sits. ‘
In a statement to ABC News in January, Trump campaign officials denied that any active members of his team were involved in planning the protest that preceded the riot.
No one mentioned in the case has yet to comment on the allegations.
Swalwell claims in the documentation that the events at the Capitol were “a direct and foreseeable consequence of the illegal actions of the accused”, and in a statement posted on his Twitter account, Swalwell said that they were all responsible for the injury and destruction that followed.
‘As a direct and foreseeable consequence of the accused’s false and contagious allegations of fraud and theft, and in direct response to the accused’s explicit calls for violence during the protest, a violent mob attacked the American Capitol and Congress’s score of election college stopped. The accused brought the mob together, lit it and incited it, and as such are entirely responsible for the injury and destruction that followed, “the case is alleged.
This is the second lawsuit of its kind to hold the former president and his next of kin accountable for their actions up to and including 6 January.
The Home Security Committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, claimed in a lawsuit last month that Trump, Giuliani conspired with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to violate the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which prohibits any actions designed. to prevent Congress from carrying out its duties when they incited the January 6 riot at the Capitol.