Who is Arnett Thomas? Convicted murderer sues Trump for $1 trillion for lives lost to Covid-19 in US
Among former POTUS Donald Trump's many opponents is now another 71-year-old New Jersey man, who is suing him for the ever-soaring death toll from Covid-19 in the US.
Identified as Arnett Thomas, the man has a slew of charges to his name, including kidnapping and murder. Currently disabled and lodged in government housing in Orange, Thomas has filed a lawsuit against Trump for his response and tackling of the pandemic.
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Who is Arnett Thomas?
Thomas, a convicted murderer, has spent two decades in prison, with his parole denied several times before being finally let out in 2000. The Justia US Law website reveals that this was his first stint in prison after a jury found him guilty of murder, kidnapping and armed robbery. Serving a term of life imprisonment plus a consecutive term of nine to ten years, Thomas had tried to escape from prison and thus sentenced to a consecutive three-year prison term. Thomas also authored a handbook called 'Crime Anonymous Program' while he was incarcerated, the book dealing with institutional and community services for recovering criminals.
In 2004, four years after being released from prison, Thomas was once again charged with uttering a forged instrument, the website documents. While out on parole, Thomas had moved location with travel passes he got from his parole officer in 2006. He currently denies those allegations, notes the outlet, while maintaining he had admitted to smoking marijuana at the time. In 2007, while still on parole, Thomas was also arrested and charged with forgery, credit card fraud, and conspiracy, although the charges were later dropped. Since then Thomas attempted getting parole discharge several times, but all his attempts have failed so far.
Arnett Thomas' lawsuit against Donald Trump
"The former president literally became the very domestic enemy to the Constitution he swore to defend," Thomas wrote in a lawsuit with more than 75 other co-plaintiffs, who are seeking $1 trillion from the ex-president as a punishment for the nearly 570,000 lives lost to Covid-19 in the US. "The point of all of this is how Trump dealt with the pandemic. He drove people to dying," Thomas told website NorthJersey.com.
He is also suing Trump for the "ancillary economic and psychological problems for many others who lost jobs or fell into a deep depression from too much home confinement," according to the outlet. Writing the lawsuit without an attorney's help and with no interest in getting himself one, Thomas added: "Trump allowed the disease to spread. What he did was politically motivated. If Trump would have handled this pandemic in a proper way he would have been elected [again]. Trump got kicked out because of the way he handled it."
