Twelve Jan. 6 defendants sued the federal government Friday for $1 million each, claiming the Capitol riot was a government "trap" designed to create the "appearance of a riot." The suit claims the government engineered the Capitol breach months before it happened, according to the complaint filed by the Ticktin Law Group. The filing names a specific window-breaker — never publicly identified — as the trigger man, the complaint says. "The plan was a trap to identify and destroy the tip of the spear of opposition to the election rigging," the filing says. Trump commuted his sentence on Jan. 20, 2025, and his convictions were wiped away when Mehta dismissed the final Jan. 6 case Tuesday at the Justice Department's request.