Daniel Hodges, a Metro officer, and Harry Dunn, a retired US Capitol police officer, listen during a hearing of the select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in Washington DC on 21 June 2022. Photograph: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenDaniel Hodges, a Metro officer, and Harry Dunn, a retired US Capitol police officer, listen during a hearing of the select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in Washington DC on 21 June 2022. Photograph: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesJanuary 6 police officers sue Trump over $1.8bn fund, alleging ‘presidential corruption’Retired Capitol police officer and DC officer allege Trump’s $1.8bn fund unlawfully rewards January 6 rioters and allies
Two police officers who clashed with rioters at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection in 2021 have sued Donald Trump over plans to create a $1.776bn “anti-weaponization” fund.
The fund, which critics have argued is essentially a slush fund, is set to compensate allies of the US president who he claims were victims of prosecutorial overreach.
Read moreIt was created as part of an agreement in which Trump and his sons dropped a $10bn long-shot lawsuit against the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Harry Dunn, a retired US Capitol police officer, and Daniel Hodges, a Metropolitan police department officer, filed a complaint in US district court in Washington DC on Tuesday.
“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,” the lawsuit says.
Todd Blanche, acting attorney general, and Scott Bessent, treasury secretary, are also named as defendants.
