Haitian Nonprofit Takes Aim at Trump, Vance Over Immigration Talk [WATCH]

A legal battle is brewing as the Haitian Bridge Alliance, a nonprofit group supporting Haitian migrants, has filed charges against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance.

According to the Cleveland-based Chandra Law Firm, the nonprofit alleges that the duo’s unsubstantiated claims about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, caused widespread panic and public disturbances. These charges stem from Trump and Vance’s repeated false claims that Haitian immigrants were abducting and eating pets in Springfield.

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The legal filing, as reported by the Chandra Law Firm, was made under Ohio’s state law, which allows private citizens to “file an affidavit charging the offense committed.” This unusual statute gives ordinary people the power to seek legal action when they believe a crime has occurred.

The nonprofit’s charges accuse Trump and Vance of several serious offenses, including disrupting public services, making false alarms, telecommunications harassment, and aggravated menacing.

Specifically, the charges include:

1. Disrupting public service – By spreading false claims that resulted in bomb threats and disruptions to public services in Springfield.
2. Making false alarms – By knowingly alarming the public with statements that state and local officials have debunked.
3. Telecommunications harassment – By using national media, debates, rallies, and social media to spread these baseless claims.
4. Aggravated menacing – For making threats of deportation aimed at legal immigrants and falsely accusing Haitian immigrants of dangerous actions.
5. Aggravated menacing (again) – By creating fear that Springfield’s Haitian community would harm others’ property or well-being.
6. Complicity – By working together to spread these harmful lies, causing innocent people to be falsely implicated.

The charges were filed in Clark County Municipal Court, with the nonprofit asking the court to establish probable cause and issue arrest warrants for Trump and Vance. According to the legal process, the court must hold a hearing before dismissing the affidavit.

As reported by News 5 Cleveland, the lead attorney for the nonprofit, Subodh Chandra, commented on the case: “The Haitian community is suffering in fear because of Trump and Vance’s 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. “There’s nothing special about Trump and Vance that entitles them to get away with what they’ve done and are doing. They think they’re above the law. They’re not.”

Local authorities, including Springfield officials and Ohio’s governor, Mike DeWine, have firmly denied the claims made by Trump and Vance, stating there is no evidence that immigrants are harming pets or engaging in any of the activities they were accused of. Instead, the inflammatory remarks have caused unnecessary fear and disruption in the community, as reported by 10 WBNS.