Police officers who guarded Capitol sue to block Trump’s $1.8 billion ‘slush fund’
Key takeaways
- The lawsuit seeks a court order blocking payments from the fund, calling it “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century.”
- Trump settled on Monday with the Internal Revenue Service, agreeing to drop his $10 billion lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns during his first term.
- U.S. acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced repeated questions over that fund during congressional testimony on Tuesday.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize Two police officers who defended the US Capitol from rioters on January 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of political “weaponization.”
In a complaint filed in federal court in Washington, former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges alleged Trump has “created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name.”
The lawsuit seeks a court order blocking payments from the fund, calling it “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century.”