Jan. 6 officers sue Trump over ‘anti-weaponization fund’

Two police officers who fended off rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block President Trump’s nearly $1.8 billion fund set to bankroll purported victims of “weaponization.”

Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges claim that the fund will be used to pay out Jan. 6 rioters.

They called the move “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century,” claiming that the people who have hurled death threats their way for their roles in defending the Capitol are one in the same with those who could receive payments from the fund.

“The Anti-Weaponization Fund will both compensate and empower the very people making those threats,” the 29-page complaint reads. “Militias like the Proud Boys will use money from the Fund to arm and equip themselves. The Fund will grant their pasts acts of violence legal imprimatur.

“And, most chillingly,” it continues, “the Fund will signal to past and potential future perpetrators........

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