Donald Trump’s nightmares might be far from over as a Democratic congressman from Mississippi, Bennie Thompson has reportedly sued him, accusing him of inciting the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January.
Thompson who wants the courts to analyze Trump’s complicity in his role in the capitol insurrection in his suit also accused Trump of conspiring with his lawyer and extremist groups to try to prevent the Senate from certifying the results of the presidential election he lost to Joe Biden.
Mr. Thompson, who also doubles as the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is part of an expected wave of litigation over the Jan. 6 riot and is believed to be the first filed by a member of Congress.
The suit is also seeings unspecified punitive and compensatory damages, reports Mail Online.
The case also names as defendants the Republican former president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and groups including the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, extremist organizations that had members charged by the Justice Department with taking part in the siege.
Lawyers for Trump have denied that he incited the riot.
A Trump adviser didn’t immediately comment about the lawsuit on Tuesday, and a lawyer for Giuliani did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
The suit, filed in federal court in Washington under a Reconstruction-era law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, comes three days after Trump was acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial that centered on allegations that he incited the riot, in which five people died.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK