Former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit, which was filed in March of this year, has been dismissed. The lawsuit was against Hillary Clinton, some ex-FBI officials, the Democratic National Committee, and dozens of other people and entities. The claim is that they “conspired to undermine his 2016 campaign by trying to vilify him with fabricated information tying him to Russia.” The lawsuit is asking for $24 million in damages.
US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the lawsuit Thursday, saying “most of Plaintiff’s claims are not only unsupported by any legal authority but plainly foreclosed by binding precedent.”
“What (Trump’s lawsuit) lacks in substance and legal support it seeks to substitute with length, hyperbole, and the settling of scores and grievances,” Middlebrooks, a Bill Clinton appointee, wrote.
Middlebrooks, of the Southern District of Florida, said there were “glaring problems” with Trump’s “audacious” interpretations of the law, and that many of Trump’s specific factual assertions were “implausible” or unsupported.
Trump “is not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm,” Middlebrooks said. “(I)nstead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum.”
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, states that they will “immediately move to appeal this decision.” She goes on to say:
“We vehemently disagree with the opinion issued by the Court today,” habba told CNN in a statement. “not only is it rife with erroneous applications of the law, it disregards the numerous independent governmental investigations which substantiate our claim that the defendants conspired to falsely implicate our client and undermind the 2016 presidential election.”
One of the claims that Clinton’s side made is that too much time has gone by. Trump’s side seems to disagree. They plan on appealing.
Source CNN
