The trans pilot demands the influence of the right who said that it caused a potomac accident

Jo Ellis, a helicopter pilot at the Virginia Army National Guard, filed a demand on Wednesday against the influential right Matt Wallace, saying that “he invented a campaign of destructive and irresponsible defamation” when he identified her falsely as a pilot in a fatal accident in January.

Ellis’s demand, which is transgender, seeks monetary damage to Wallace for spreading its millions of followers that Ellis was flying the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed with a passenger plane on the Potomac River in January, killing the 67 people aboard both planes.

“Following this horrible tragedy, [Wallace] He decided to exploit this devastation for the clicks and money, ”said the demand, accusing him of capitalizing on the right -handed outrage promoted by the fault of President Donald Trump of practices for hiring diversity, equity and inclusion for the accident.

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“[A] The transgender Pilot Black Hawk seemed the perfect objective, ”says the demand, saying that he went on to make several transformer attacks against her.

Wallace “used its prominent platform X to monetize a false narrative that [Ellis] It was not only one of the army pilots involved in the collision in the air, but also that she Participated in ‘Another trans attack Trans’ and intentionally caused collision in the air due to it’Depression ‘and’ Gender dysphoria ‘, “says the lawsuit, which was presented in the United States District Court in Colorado.

Ellis’s demand was filed in his name by the Legal Action Fund of Equality, which is largely composed of volunteer lawyers representing LGBTQ+ people in demands for defamation and harassment.

By pushing her to the public sphere, the demand affirms, Wallace interrupted the privacy of Ellis and put her life at risk.

“Given its immediate notoriety and the Fact that she is a transgender woman, fears for the immediate security of herself and her family Because of the hatred inspired against him for [Wallace’s] lies, ”says the complaint. Ellis “has state harassed, received credible death threats, state forced to hire to staff security detail, and began carrying to firearm for his own staff Protection, ”he continued.

When Ellis published a “life test” video in response to false rumors about her, Wallace defended himself by saying that it was not the first story to spread the lie, which for him “[s]Eemid credible because Jo Ellis wrote an article that called Trump’s military prohibition only a few days ago ”and because “[t]There have been many recent shootings and school attacks carried out by trans people ”, which is not supported by any evidence.

Wallace has not yet issued a public statement in response to the lawsuit.