The longtime partner of a U.S. Capitol Police officer who died as a result of the January 6 attack is suing Trump for millions of dollars.
“Many participants in the attack have since revealed that they were acting on what they believed to be Defendant Trump’s direct orders in service of their country,” Garza’s lawsuit states, noting that, “before directing the mob to the U.S. Capitol, Defendant Trump instructed them to ‘fight like hell’ and declared that ‘you’re allowed to go by very different rules’ and ‘you have to show strength.
Garza, who is the personal representative for the Estate of Brian Sicknick, also referenced Trump’s words in the weeks prior to the attack on the Capitol, including his calls for his followers to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally in front of the White House on January 6; on December 19, 2020,“Particularly considering Defendant Trump’s prior directive to a white supremacist group — the Proud Boys — to ‘stand by,’ Defendant Trump’s tweet was understood by his followers to be a call to violence,”A...
in another lawsuit purporting that Trump was partially responsible for the violent events of January 6. “It is at least plausible to infer that, when he called on rally-goers to march to the Capitol, [Trump] did so with the goal of disrupting lawmakers’ efforts to certify the Electoral College votes,” U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said in that decision.
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