The MAGA hat-wearing student that went viral over a confrontation with a Native American protestor is suing the Washington Post for $250 million.
On Tuesday, the legal team working for Covington Catholic high school student #NicholasSandmann filed a $250 million lawsuit against the Washington Post. According to the suit filed by Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry of Hemmer DeFrank Wessels, PLLC in the United States District Court Eastern District of Kentucky states the Sandmann family seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
The documents argue that the newspaper attacked Nicholas Sandmann because he was "white" and wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat on the Jan. 18 field trip to the March for Life rally in Washington, D.C. The lawsuit claims Nicholas is at no fault because he was "unexpectedly and suddenly confronted by Nathan Phillips, a known Native American activist" who beat a drum and yelled in Sandmann's face.