A group of seven officers of the Capitol police force have brought a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, as well as a host of his advisers and most enthusiastically violent followers, accusing them of fomenting and enacting the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt.
The suit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, names not only Trump, but also his longtime adviser and confidant Roger Stone, "Stop The Steal" organizer Ali Alexander, and right-wing militia groups the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers, alleging that they were subjected to both physical and psychological injury from "an attack provoked, aided, and joined by defendants in an unlawful effort to use force, intimidation, and threats to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election."
