Trump Served With Civil Lawsuit Over Capitol Riot

Yahoo News reports:

Attorneys for Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and the NAACP have served former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club with a lawsuit filed against him in February. Thompson and the NAACP filed suit against Trump alleging that his incendiary rhetoric and false claims of a “stolen” election amounted to a conspiracy to interfere with civil rights by inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

The suit names Trump alongside his attorney Rudy Giuliani and the right wing extremist groups, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, as co-defendants and builds off the 1871 “Ku Klux Klan Act,” which was “intended to protect against conspiracies, through violence and intimidation, that sought to prevent Members of Congress from discharging their official duties,” according to a complaint.

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Attorneys for Rep. Bennie Thompson and the NAACP have served Trump at Mar-a-Lago with their civil rights lawsuit.

The suit alleges that Trump’s election lies amounted to a conspiracy to interfere with civil rights by inciting the Capitol riot. https://t.co/NIdSkp3uja

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 3, 2021