Rep. Eric Swalwell, one of the House executives, has filed a lawsuit against former President Trump, saying he should be held financially responsible for destruction on January 6 when a pro-Trump gang storms the Capitol.
The California Democrat on Friday filed a 65-page U.S. District Court case in Washington, DC, against Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., his attorney Rudy Giuliani and GOP Representative Mo Brooks, who accused them of inciting the riot on January 6 and and demand that they be held accountable in court for the suffering that followed.
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“The accused gathered, inflamed and incited the mob and as such are entirely responsible for the injury and destruction that followed,” Swalwell said in a statement on the case.
Swalwell’s lawsuit leads to nine charges against Trump and the others, ranging from conspiracy to violate civil rights to intentionally inflicting emotional distress on Swalwell.
The lawsuit does not specify the amount of money and penalties that Swalwell is claiming. He is demanding a jury trial.
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Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump, slammed Swalwell in a statement to Fox News for the congressman’s ties to a suspected Chinese spy known as Fang Fang or Christine Fang. Federal authorities warned Swalwell in 2015 during a defense briefing on Fang’s activities, Axios first reported.
“Eric Swalwell is a low life without credibility who was caught” going out “with Chinese spy Fang-Fang and making disgusting noises on national television,” Miller said in a statement. “Now, after failing miserably has with two accusations, ‘do mr. Fang-Fang ‘the bid of his Chinese masters and attacks our greatest president with another witch hunt. It is a disgrace that a compromised member of Congress like Swalwell still sits on the House Intelligence Committee. ‘
Swalwell was in the House Democrats team that prosecuted the accusation case against Trump earlier this year for one reason for an uprising. Trump was acquitted by the Senate.
Trump’s legal team has argued that the former president’s comments during a pre – violence rally on January 6 did not fuel the riots and Trump specifically called on supporters to go ‘peacefully and patriotically’ to the Capitol. to march.
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Swalwell is not the first congressman to sue Trump for the January 6 riot. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Filed a lawsuit in February, alleging that Trump incited the violence that disrupted Congress to ratify the president of Biden’s Electoral College.
“His cheerful support of violent white supremacists has led to a violation of the Capitol that has seriously endangered the lives of me and my colleagues,” Thompson said last month when he filed his lawsuit.