{"id":1817452,"date":"2023-01-20T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T17:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1817452"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:50:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T17:50:42","slug":"trump-fined-almost-1m-over-lawsuit-alleging-conspiracy-to-push-russian-collusion-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-fined-almost-1m-over-lawsuit-alleging-conspiracy-to-push-russian-collusion-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fined Almost $1M Over Lawsuit Alleging Conspiracy To Push Russian Collusion Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-fined-almost-1m-over-lawsuit-alleging-conspiracy-to-push-russian-collusion-hoax%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1817452&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A federal judge in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a> Former President has been sanctioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> He was represented by one of his lawyers in a frivolous lawsuit against him. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> Among them, 30 others.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-sues-hillary-clinton-dozens-of-others-over-far-reaching-russian-collusion-conspiracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued<\/a> Clinton, James Comey (ex-FBI Director), the Democratic National Committee, as well as dozens of other people in March 2022. Former President claimed that the defendants plotted to spread false and malicious information about Trump&#8217;s ties to Russia during his 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, ordered Trump, his attorney Alina Habba, and Habba\u2019s firm, Habba Madaio &#038; Associates, to pay a $937,989.39 fine for a lawsuit that \u201cneedlessly harmed\u201d 31 individuals and entities \u201cin order to dishonestly advance a political narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,\u201d Donald Middlebrooks, U.S. District Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/static.poder360.com.br\/2023\/01\/trumop-clinton-20jan2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cMr. Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba,\u201d The judge agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawsuit accused a slew of Democratic groups, operatives, public officials, and others of \u201cnefariously\u201d abusing federal investigative power, media ethics, and the public\u2019s trust to promote a conspiracy about the Trump campaign\u2019s ties to Moscow. \u201cIndeed, their far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple Trump\u2019s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media frenzy,\u201d Trump\u2019s lawsuit said.<\/p>\n<p>Middlebrooks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/19\/us\/politics\/trump-clinton-lawsuit-fine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threw out<\/a> the case in September, dismissing Trump\u2019s filing as a \u201cpolitical manifesto\u201d This lawsuit was disguised as a lawsuit that contained hyperbolic claims and overwrought language, but lacked substance. The judge fined Trump\u2019s legal team $50,000 over the lawsuit in November.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the defendants jointly filed a request for more punishment against Trump. Clinton and others targeted in Trump\u2019s suit asked Middlebrooks for additional sanctions against the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Middlebrooks at the time agreed to consider the additional sanctions and warned Trump\u2019s legal team that additional action may be taken against them by \u201cthe bar and disciplinary authorities\u201d Over the Trump lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Florida has sanctioned former President Donald Trump and one of his attorneys over a lawsuit deemed frivolous against Hillary Clinton and 30 others. Trump sued Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, the Democratic National Committee, and dozens of others in March 2022. The former president alleged that the defendants orchestrated a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1817455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[15118,5299,6926,3985,6202,10453,8857,4585,3688,3965,3634,6195],"class_list":["post-1817452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-1m","tag-alleging","tag-collusion","tag-conspiracy","tag-daily","tag-fined","tag-hoax","tag-lawsuit","tag-push","tag-russian","tag-trump","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1817455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}