The leader of a nonprofit representing Springfield, Ohio's Haitian community has filed criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, over chaos and threats experienced by the city after they spread false claims about legal immigrants.

The leader of a nonprofit representing the Haitian community of Springfield, Ohio, filed criminal charges Tuesday against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, over the chaos and threats experienced by the city since Trump first spread false claims about legal immigrants there during a presidential debate.

The Haitian Bridge Alliance invoked its private-citizen right to file the charges in the wake of inaction by the local prosecutor, said their attorney, Subodh Chandra of the Cleveland-based Chandra Law Firm.

“Their persistence and relentlessness, even in the face of the governor and the mayor saying this is false, that shows intent,” Chandra said. “It’s knowing, willful flouting of criminal law.”

  • @finitebanjo
    7•2 months ago

    Unfortunately, time and time again the US Courts have found that Stochastic Terrorism is not illegal.

    However, Trump has not done that, Trump has called them a violent existential threat, which seems like a more direct form of terrorism to me.