Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn files suit to block Trump's 'slush fund'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: MS NOW

A familiar figure intends to find out. On Wednesday morning, former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, perhaps best known to much of the public for his testimony to the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee, filed a lawsuit with the Public Integrity Project seeking to invalidate the Republican administration’s fund, claiming that it emboldens violence against police and rewards sedition.

Another officer, Daniel Hodges, who also defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, joined Dunn in bringing the lawsuit.

MS NOW’s Britt Miller spoke to Dunn about the lawsuit and this week’s developments. The decorated officer said:

I had the opportunity to talk with lawyers about this. And we are going to sue to stop this illegal slush fund. Now, obviously, we encourage everybody else to sue. Everybody should, this can’t happen. So, we believe that we, the officers in this suit, will be harmed by this. We have been subjected to countless death threats in addition to all the violence that we faced on Jan. 6. But for just speaking out the truth, I mean, I guarantee you somebody’s watching this right now and typing death threats to us right now. And deaths only continue to embolden and potentially continue to arm a militia that Donald Trump will have on retainer.


Read more: https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/former-capitol-police-officer-harry-dunn-files-suit-to-block-trumps-slush-fund

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. The slush fund seems to me like conspiracy after-the-fact

especially since he put them up to it. This is rubbing salt in the wound. Why should taxpayers pay for this?

Rewards Cards for criminals funded by taxpayers is against my religious beliefs!

[mopinko]

2. u have to wonder

how much he is going to reward himself for jack smith.

[mb40]

3. Good. They are brave men and the horrible trauma and violence they endured on J6 should be all over the media right now.

It needs to be shown in graphic detail because of all the Republican's gaslighting after the event. I couldn't imagine how terrifying J6 was for them, then to see the criminal thugs pardoned, and now this.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. 2 officers in Jan. 6 riot sue to block DOJ "anti-weaponization" fund

There will be a ton of lawsuits

2 officers in Jan. 6 riot sue to block DOJ "anti-weaponization" fund.
By Jacob Rosen, Jennifer Jacobs.

"U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges, asks a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal..."

www.cbsnews.com/news/lawsuit...

— John James Dillard (@johnjamesdillard.bsky.social) 2026-05-20T14:48:45.338Z

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lawsuit-trump-1-7-billion-anti-weaponization-fund-former-police/

Two law enforcement officers who clashed with rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, sued Wednesday to block the Trump administration's $1.7 billion "anti-weaponization fund," which was created this week as part of a settlement between President Trump and the federal government.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia by retired U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges, asks a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that the Treasury Department has made to the Justice Department to implement it.

Both Dunn and Hodges defended the U.S. Capitol after a mob of Trump supporters attempted to stop the certification of the Electoral College on Jan. 6, 2021.

The fund was announced Monday by the Justice Department. In a statement announcing the $1.776 billion fund, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the fund would "provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare."

[twodogsbarking]

5. Go Harry. We are with ya.

[Bayard]

6. Absolutely!

I think they'll win. trump pressured the IRS to settle because he knew his bullshit would not stand up in court.

[Zelda_Orchid]

7. On Stephanie Miller someone said we should call it a "Reparations Fund"

Then Republicans might oppose it.

[MLWR]

8. Brought to you by "The Party of Fiscal Responsibility."

[AverageOldGuy]

9. Dunn and the rest of the Capitol Police and other officers . . .

. . . should sue the J6ers for intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and throw some other emotioanl distress stuff in the game. Sue them for whatever they get from the Trump slush fund. The bar of proof for these is preponderance of the evidence, which is a fairly low bar.

Or maybe wait until the Trump payments have been paid then go after that.

Two can play this game.

[Martin68]

10. I hope they win.

[FakeNoose]

11. Why can't U.S. taxpayers join this as a class-action suit?

We should have a say on how our tax money is spent! And I sure as hell don't want to see it going into Chump's scheme of corruption.

[Marthe48]

12. pedo doesn't know who knows what so he's paying them all off

More organized crime robbing American taxpayers of money meant for the common welfare. And who will stop them? The grifters in congress?

[FakeNoose]

13. He'll pay them peanuts and keep the lion's share for himself

It could even get hidden in his cryptocurrency ($Trump) where there's no oversight for anything.

[Ilsa]

14. The real "retribution plan" is against all of the USA

for voting his incompetent ass out in 2020.

[Wednesdays]

19. Yeah, the "peanuts check" will be in the mail.

In two weeks.

[surfered]

15. Good!

[Bluetus]

16. Every American taxpayer should have standing. How about the largest class action suit in history?

How can any of this be legal? None of it was ordered by a court. In fact, they were losing in court and shut down the case.

What we have here is a President directing a subordinate to give him almost $2 billion in taxpayer money that was never adjudicated, nor appropriated by Congress.

Ad the selfsame President is directing the IRS to never investigate anybody connected with the President.

Seriously. WTF? How can any of this be legal?

[58Sunliner]

17. Kick and rec!

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

18. Give 'em Hell Harry!

[electric_blue68]

20. Good on you both! May you be sucessful!

What a heinous, terrifying day that was!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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