Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton attend campaign rallies in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, October 10, 2016 and Manchester, New Hampshire USA, October 24, 2016 under a combination of profile photo.
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Former President Donald Trump and one of his attorneys said Monday they being attractive almost 1 million US dollars sanctions imposed against them for what a federal judge called their “frivolous” lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and more than two dozen other defendants.
The court filed the appeal days after Trump’s attorney and his attorney Alina Habba told the judge in the case they were willing to place a $1,031,788 bond to cover the costs. the cost of sanctions while federal 11 District Court of Appeal considered the problem.
In imposing those sanctions on January 19, Judge John Middlebrooks said in an order, “We are facing a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which completely frivolous, both practically and legally, and this lawsuit was brought in bad faith for an unwarranted reason.” purpose.”
Trump’s suitclaims $70 million in damages, accused Clinton, former FBI officials, the Democratic National Committee and others of conspiring to create a “false story” that Trump and the His 2016 presidential campaign against Clinton colluded with Russia to try to win that election. year.
Middlebrooks in September dismissed the lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida and barred Trump from resubmitting the complaint.
He then ordered Trump and Habba to pay more than $937,000 in sanctions.
Middlebrooks in his sanctions called Trump a “strategic mastermind of the abuse of judicial process” and a “multiple and complex litigator who repeatedly uses the courts to exact revenge on political opponents. “
The day after Middlebrooks issued that order, Trump voluntarily dropped another lawsuit he was pending before the same judge against New York Attorney General Letitia James. That lawsuit relates to James’ pending $250 million fraud lawsuit against Trump and his company in Manhattan state court.
Jared Roberts, an attorney for Trump and Habba, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC on the appeal.
