A Democratic congressman has accused Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani of conspiring and inciting the deadly insurrection on the US Capitol on 6 January, in a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
Bennie Thompson, a Democrat and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, filed the suit in a federal court in Washington under a Reconstruction-era law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, according to the Associated Press.
It comes three days after Mr Trump was acquitted by Republicans in a Senate impeachment trial that centred on allegations that he incited the riot, in which at least five people were killed.
Lawyers for Mr Trump — who denied that he incited the riot by pushing claims about a “stolen” election and calling on crowds to march with “strength” on the Captiol on 6 January – did not immediately comment on the lawsuit on Tuesday,
A lawyer for Mr Giuliani, who pushed those election claims on Mr Trump’s behalf, also provided no immediate comment to the AP, who reported on lawsuit by Mr Thompson.
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