Two U.S. Capitol Police officers on March 30 sued former President Donald Trump, asserting that he caused physical and emotional injuries suffered during the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol building. James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby, both of Maryland, were on duty that day. People in the mob “were spurred on by Trump’s conduct over many months in getting his followers to believe his false allegation that he was about to be forced out of the White House because of massive election fraud by his presidential adversary Joe Biden, and that the convening of Congress on January 6 to count the Electoral College results and declare the winner was their last chance to ‘stop the steal,'” according to the suit, obtained by The Epoch Times. “The insurrectionist mob, which Trump had inflamed, encouraged, incited, directed, and aided and abetted, forced its way over and past the plaintiffs and their fellow …
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