Two January 6 officers sued Donald Trump Wednesday to block his $1.776 billion fund for the rioters.
Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges say the Anti-Weaponization Fund violates the 14th Amendment. Ratified after the Civil War, Section 4 bars the federal government from paying debts “incurred in aid of insurrection.” Their complaint calls the fund “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century.”
The Treasury that pays Hodges and Dunn for protecting the Capitol can also pay the people who beat them. Vice President Vance confirmed it Tuesday. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell Congress to back the officers who protected the country on January 6 and end the fund before the first check clears.
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