Seven officers of the US Capitol Police who were on duty during the January 6th Capitol Riot have decided to be useful idiots and file suit against President Trump, and dozens of his supporters leaning heavily on an antiquated anti-KKK law on the ridiculously false premise that Trump and his supporters are White Supremacists. The lawsuit alleges President Trump and other organizers and attendees of the Save America Rally “actions violated the federal Ku Klux Klan Act, the D.C. Bias-Related Crimes Act, and other laws” according to court documents.
A Frivolous Lawsuit with a 150-Year-Old Premise
On its face, this case and the others like it that are reliant upon the 1871 Klu Klux Klan Act are most likely to fail in any objectively reasonable court. In order to succeed the plaintiffs must do the impossible: prove a falsehood true. The entire case rests on the concept that President Trump’s efforts to preserve the integrity of the 2020 Election were driven by “Racism and White Supremacy” and that they “pervaded Defendants’ efforts from the outset.
Defendants targeted false claims of election fraud at cities and states with significant Black populations—including Atlanta (51% Black), Detroit (78% Black), Milwaukee (39% Black), Philadelphia (43% Black), and Pittsburgh (23% Black)—and sought to intimidate and threaten officials from those and other jurisdictions into overturning the will of the voters.” Simply put, the evidence and facts do not bear this out, as indicated by the parties’ unwillingness to bring criminal charges in accordance with the Civil War-era law.
The lawsuit, like those pitched by the NAACP and disgraced Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) by virtue of being a civil rather than a criminal action, possesses a much lower threshold of proof. Given that the case of Trump instigating the events of January 6th was already thoroughly and publicly disproven during the Second impeachment of the President. The case is also predicated on a conspiracy between President Trump and a diverse group which includes The Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, Roger Stone et. al. pretty much everybody who spoke at the Save America Rally, a conspiracy which can’t conceivably be proven.
In the legal documentation, the officers also make wild assertions that Trump,
“followed the Capitol Attack on television and social media as it happened, and despite requests made to TRUMP to call off the attackers—including from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy—he refused to do so for hours as he watched on live television the attackers overrun the Capitol and threaten its lawful occupants.”
with neither evidence nor witness testimony. In short: this is a publicity stunt, plain and simple.
Here’s the downside: the venue is the Washington, D.C. district court. A traditionally leftist bench, one which might actually countenance this madness.
