Chinese Rights Group Sues Trump

Days after Congress passed its NO HATE Act in response to an insidious surge of violence directed toward Asian Americans, the Chinese Americans Civil Rights Coalition brought a federal defamation complaint against former President Donald Trump.

Community members gather for a vigil to mourn and confront the rising violence against Asian Americans at the 10th Street Plaza, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Philadelphia. The vigil was held following a mass shooting in Atlanta that killed eight people, six of them women of Asian decent. (Joe Lamberti/Camden Courier-Post via AP)

MANHATTAN — Days after Congress passed its NO HATE Act in response to an insidious surge of violence directed toward Asian Americans, the Chinese Americans Civil Rights Coalition brought a federal defamation complaint against former President Donald Trump.

At 53 pages, the substantial filing notes that Trump’s “defamatory slanders and libel since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic” have continued into his still very influential private life. Trump referred to Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus” as recently as March 16, 2021 — the very same day that eight people, including six Asian women, were killed in a series of Atlanta spa shootings.

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