February 18, 2025

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Trump Faucets Nevada ‘Stop the Steal’ Attorney Jesse Binnall to Defend Him in Civil Rights Match

Previous President Trump has picked out Jesse Binnall, a Republican law firm who filed a lawsuit attempting to overturn the 2020 election outcomes in Nevada, to signify him in a lawsuit that alleges he violated the 1871 Ku Klux Klan act by inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

Mississippi Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson and the NAACP submitted the fit in February versus Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the Oath Keepers militia, alleging that they “conspired to incite an assembled crowd” in Washington, D.C. to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6 and disrupt the counting of electoral votes.

Courtroom files filed in the lawsuit on Thursday present that Jesse Binnall will signify Trump in the fit.

Binnall represented former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn together with Sidney Powell in his prison trial for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. Flynn was subsequently pardoned.

Extra recently, Binnall was concerned in attempting to overturn the effects of the 2020 election with a lawsuit against election officials in Nevada. He testified in advance of the Senate Homeland Stability Committee in December and claimed that 42,000 men and women voted extra than once throughout Nevada’s 2020 election—a claim due to the fact debunked by fact-checkers.

Binnall is also representing Defending the Republic, a lawful business founded by Sidney Powell to go after lawsuits that sought to overturn election final results from the election, in a $1.3 billion lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Methods against Powell and the lawful group.

On Twitter, Binnall is a vocal conservative and member of the MAGA devoted. On Jan. 6, as Congress tallied up President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, Binnall echoed Trump’s disdain for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who the previous president viewed as disloyal for his refusal to reduce the certification of Biden’s win.

“He is going to be the minority leader since he’s a coward and turning a blind eye to voter fraud. Any Senator that proceeds to support his management must be thrown out,” Binnall tweeted.