Published Thursday, March 2, 2023 2:49PM ESTcan be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said Thursday in a federal court case testingThe department wrote that although a president enjoys broad legal latitude to communicate to the public on matters of concern, “no part of a President's official responsibilities includes the incitement of imminent private violence.
The brief was filed by lawyers of the Justice Department's Civil Division and has no bearing on a separate criminal investigation by a department special counsel into whethercan be criminally charged over efforts to undo Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election ahead of the Capitol riot.
“In exercising their traditional communicative functions, Presidents routinely address controversial issues that are the subject of passionate feelings. Presidents may at times use strong rhetoric. And some who hear that rhetoric may overreact, or even respond with violence,” the department wrote.
The lawsuits, filed by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby, and later joined by other House Democrats, argue thatand others made “false and incendiary allegations of fraud and theft, and in direct response to the Defendant's express calls for violence at the rally, a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
The suits cite a federal civil rights law that was enacted to counter the Ku Klux Klan's intimidation of officials. They describe in detail howand others spread baseless claims of election fraud, both before and after the 2020 presidential election was declared, and charge that they helped to rile up the thousands of rioters before they stormed the Capitol.
If Trump can be sued for having sex with porn stars, he can surely be sued for Jan 6 actions.
One can always sue. Doesn't mean you'll win and might cost millions to pursue.
Still milking that one....how about focusing on Canada lol
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Good. Sue him and his followers
Lol. No he can’t.
Slow news day? Anyone can be sued for anything. Trump will run in 2024 and probably win. We need him now more than ever.
Han dong!!
The walls are closing in...
Muller report-nothing, Russian collusion-nothing, impeachment-nothing. Add this thing and whatever you throw at him next. The world is falling apart under the Biden regime, but at least there is no more mean tweets!
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Can we sue this corrupt sh*t?
Joe Biden’s justice department ruled this?! I’m shocked! /s
Go get him.
Trump 2024
Trudeau is owned by the Chinese Communist Party
We always new they would never convict him. They convicted everyone else though.
... anyways..
inept manchild
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