{"id":48,"date":"2026-05-27T14:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:38:22","slug":"capitol-police-officers-sue-trump-over-slush-fund-for-jan-6-rioters-other-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump over Slush Fund for Jan. 6 Rioters &#038; Other Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021, have filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the creation of a $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges are bringing the lawsuit because the fund could be used to compensate the Capitol rioters who attacked them and their colleagues. Both officers say they have faced continuous credible threats since that day.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=34\">\u201cPolitically Driven Epidemic\u201d: Ebola Response Hampered by Impoverishment &amp; U.S. Global Health Cuts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis slush fund is going to be used to pay the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers,\u201d says Brendan Ballou, <span>CEO<\/span> of the Public Integrity Project, who is representing officers Dunn and Hodges. \u201cIt is going to give a presidential endorsement to these people, saying that not only \u2026 will they be put beyond the reach of the law, but they will actually be financially rewarded for doing so.\u201d Ballou is also a former federal prosecutor who spent two years prosecuting January 6 Capitol rioters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=32\">Rising Conflict in DRC, Sudan, Other African Countries Linked to Trump\u2019s Gutting of USAID: Study<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021, have filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the creation of a $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges are bringing the lawsuit because the fund could be used to compensate the Capitol rioters who attacked them and their colleagues. Both officers say they have faced continuous credible threats since that day. \u201cThis slush fund is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump over Slush Fund for Jan. 6 Rioters &amp; Other Allies - Housing Shift News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=48\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump over Slush Fund for Jan. 6 Rioters &amp; Other Allies - Housing Shift News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021, have filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the creation of a $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. 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