In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021.
Swalwell's attorney Philip Andonian praised Thompsonās lawsuit, filed under a Reconstruction-era law called the Ku Klux Klan Act, and said they were behind it 100%, but saw the need for this one, too.
āWe see ourselves as having a different angle to this, holding Trump accountable for the incitement, the disinformation,ā he said.
But the lawsuit, like the one by Thompson, was brought against Trump in his personal, not official, capacity.
āUnable to accept defeat, Donald Trump waged an all out war on a peaceful transition of power,ā Swalwell said in a statement.