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Haitian nonprofit in Springfield files criminal charges against Donald Trump, JD Vance

Last Updated 2 weeks by Amnon J. Jobi | Amnon Front Page

The leader of the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance filed charges against former president Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, for the chaos that ensued from their uncorroborated statements about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets, according to the Cleveland law firm representing the agency.

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The Chandra Law Firm says the nonprofit used a state statute allowing private citizens to “file an affidavit charging the offense committed.”

The following charges were filed:

Disrupting public service by causing widespread bomb and other threats that resulted in massive disruptions to the public services in Springfield, Ohio; Making false alarms by knowingly causing alarm in the Springfield community by continuing to repeat lies that state and local officials have said were false; Committing telecommunications harassment  by spreading claims they know to be false during the presidential debate, campaign rallies, nationally televised interviews, and social media; Committing aggravated menacing in violation  by knowingly making intimidating statements with the intent to abuse, threaten, or harass the recipients, including Trumps threat to deport immigrants who are here legally to Venezuela, a land they have never known; Committing aggravated menacing  by knowingly causing others to falsely believe that members of Springfield’s Haitian community would cause serious physical harm to the person or property of others in Springfield; and Violating the prohibition against complicity by conspiring with one another and spreading vicious lies that caused innocent parties to be parties to their various crimes.

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The charges were filed in Clark County Municipal Court.

Through the filing, the nonprofit asks the court to affirm probable cause and to issue arrest warrants.

The court must have a hearing before rejecting the affidavit as part of the legal process.

The law firm said the charges “stem from the impact of Trumps and Vances baseless fearmongering that that legal Haitian immigrants to the Ohio town are eating their neighbors pets.”

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The Haitian community is suffering in fear because of Trump and Vances relentless, irresponsible, false alarms, and public services have been disrupted. Trump and Vance must be held accountable to the rule of law. Anyone else who wreaked havoc the way they did would have been arrested by now,” lead counsel Subodh Chandra said. “Theres nothing special about Trump and Vance that entitles them to get away with what theyve done and are doing. They think they’re above the law. They’re not.”

Springfield has been inundated with hoax bomb threats since the presidential debate when Trump baselessly accused members of Springfield’s Haitian community of abducting and eating cats and dogs.

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JD Vance amplified debunked internet rumors about Haitian migrants as the Republican ticket criticized the immigration policies of President Joe Biden’s administration that are supported by Trump’s Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.

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City officials acknowledge growing pains from the influx of some 15,000 Haitian immigrants but say there’s no evidence to support the claim they are consuming anyone’s pets.

JD Vance later went on CNN and said, “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then thats what Im going to do.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. Springfield, Ohio leaders: No credible reports of pets being eaten

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