Court Throws out Trump Lawsuit Against Clinton, Comey
A judge on Sept. 8 tossed a lawsuit brought by former President Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton and a slew of others.
Trump sued Clinton, former British spy Christopher Steele, and several dozen others in March over Russian collusion allegations, alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). In an amended complaint several months later, he expanded on the accusations of a conspiracy.
But U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Bill Clinton appointee, said that the lengthy complaint “does not establish that Plaintiff is entitled to any relief” and that the claims presented in it “are not warranted under existing law.”
“I highlight here just two glaring problems with the Amended Complaint. There are many others. But these are emblematic of the audacity of Plaintiff’s legal theories and the manner in which they clearly contravene binding case law. First, the Amended Complaint’s answer to the Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss the original Complaint, wherein Defendants noted the lack of predicate RICO offenses, was to add another predicate offense—wire fraud,” Middlebrooks, who refused to recuse from the case, wrote in a 65-page order.
Trump also “fails to account for the Supreme Court’s requirement that to obstruct justice there must be a nexus to a judicial or grand jury proceeding,” he added later.
The judge said that the way many events were characterized in the amended complaint “are implausible because they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached,” including the characterization that former FBI Director James Comey and other government officials “overzealously targeted” Trump.
Trump and his campaign were investigated by the FBI for years over the dossier compiled by Steele, which was paid for by Clinton and other Democrats. The dossier contained many claims that have remained unsubstantiated to this day. The FBI operation was
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