Chinanews.com, May 28. According to a report by the US Chinese website, on the 27th local time, former US President Trump and his former personal lawyer Giuliani asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to instigate riots in the Capitol.
Data map: On January 6, local time, during a joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, Trump supporters broke into the Capitol and caused riots. In the House of Representatives, the police held guns and confronted the protesters through the doors and windows.
The lawsuit was filed by Democratic Congressman Benny Thompson and 10 other House Democrats, accusing Trump and Giuliani of inciting Trump supporters at a rally held near Congress on January 6th. Unleash riots to prevent Congress from confirming Biden's election victory.
In their motion to dismiss the lawsuit, Trump and Giuliani stated that their speeches at the rally are protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
At the rally, Trump put pressure on Republican lawmakers and then Vice President Pence, who presided over the congressional certification of the election results, and asked them to oppose the election results in several swing states.
He called on his followers to go to the Capitol and told people: "If you don't fight with all your strength, then you will no longer have a country."
But Trump’s defense attorney Jesse Bennal pointed out in court documents submitted that Trump also told people to "voice their voice peacefully and patriotically."
Bennal said that the Democrats’ claims “directly violated the absolute immunity granted to the then president by the Constitution” and “failed to find a reasonable excuse for the conspiracy theory against Trump”.
During the rally, Giuliani called on Trump supporters to "fight for trial."
However, his lawyer argued in his request to dismiss the lawsuit, “There is no reasonable crowd who would take Giuliani’s words as an instruction to go to the Capitol, violently rush into protection, and intimidate Congress to stop election certification.”
The lawyer representing the Democratic Party said that the plaintiff will continue to advance the lawsuit.
On January 6, when the Congress was counting the electoral votes in the presidential election, Trump supporters violently stormed Congress, killing at least five people.
US media said that the incident was the worst attack on Congress in 200 years.