1 of 5 | Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Trump administration for creating a $1.776 billion fund for rioters. File Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI | License Photo
May 20 (UPI) -- Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Trump administration for creating a $1.776 billion fund for rioters.
Former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges are suing the administration, alleging that the slush fund paid by tax dollars is illegal. The lawsuit seeks to block the creation of the fund, which the Department of Justice has named the "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
"In the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century, President Donald J. Trump has created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name," reads the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C.
"The fund, styled the 'Anti-Weaponization Fund,' is illegal. No statute authorizes its creation, the settlement on which it is premised is a corrupt sham, and its design violates the Constitution and federal law."
