Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
Broadly speaking, Donald Trump’s legal troubles can be broken up into two categories: the former president’s criminal cases and his civil cases. The former pose a dramatic threat: The presumptive Republican nominee is currently facing 88 criminal counts across four jurisdictions. The latter might seem less serious — none of them, for example, would land Trump in prison — but it’d be a mistake to shrug off the significance of civil litigation. E.
In fact, multiple cases were filed: In March 2021, two Capitol Police officers, James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby, sued Trump, claiming he was liable for the injuries they suffered during the riot.In August 2021, seven more police officers who were attacked and beaten during the Capitol riot sued the former president.In January 2022, three more police officers — including two who aided the evacuation of lawmakers — sued Trump, seeking damages for their physical and emotional injuries.
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