Former US President Donald Trump is being charged by two agents of the Capitol Police, the corps that guards parliament in the capital Washington. Police officers accuse Trump of provoking the deadly storming of the parliament building in January.
Agents James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby say Trump has been inciting his constituency for months with unproven theories of electoral fraud. In their eyes, this has led to the storming of the Capitol, where, according to the police union, at least a hundred officers were injured. Several people were also killed.
Blassingame and Hemby are the first Capitol Police officers to charge Trump. They say they have been attacked by rioters with substances such as pepper spray and tear gas. According to court documents, Blassingame is also struggling with psychological problems. The police are demanding compensation. Trump’s spokesman said The Washington Post not yet responded.
Last week, the former president said in conversation with Fox News that the rioters posed “no threat” to the agents in and around the Capitol.
“Some of them (rioters, ed.) Have gone in, where they embraced the police and security guards. They had a good time together,” Trump said. Five people, including a police officer, were killed in the storming of the Capitol.
After those riots, Democrats already tried to prosecute Trump through parliament, but that came to nothing. There was not enough support in the Senate to condemn the former president. His legal problems were not over with that. Several Democratic politicians have taken Trump to court.
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