Trump and Giuliani sued over violence in US Capitol riot
Civil lawsuit names former US president, his lawyer and two right-wing groups
16 February 2021 - 19:54
Washington — A Democratic congressman accused former president Donald Trump, his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and two right-wing groups of conspiring to incite the deadly riot at the US Capitol in a lawsuit on Tuesday.
The civil lawsuit accuses the duo of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 law passed to crack down on the white supremacist organisation, and is the latest legal attempt to find Trump responsible for the violence on January 6, which came after he spent months falsely claiming his election defeat in November was the result of widespread fraud...
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