Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton attend campaign rallies on October 10, 2016 in Ambridge, Pennsylvania and Manchester, New Hampshire US, in a combination October 24, 2016 file photo.
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Former President Donald Trump and one of his lawyers said Monday they are appealing nearly $1 million in sanctions a federal judge awarded Hillary Clinton and more than two dozen other defendants in her “frivolous” lawsuit. Who was told
A court filing about the appeal came days after an attorney for Trump and his attorney, Alina Habba, told the judge in the case that they were willing to post a bond of $1,031,788 to cover the cost of the sanctions, while for the 11th The Federal Court of Appeals for the Circuit considered the case.
In imposing those sanctions last month, Judge John Middlebrook said in an order, “We are faced with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, that was factually and legally frivolous, and Which was brought with bad intention for an improper purpose.” ,
Trump’s lawsuit, which sought $70 million in damages, accused Clinton, former FBI officials, the Democratic National Committee, and others of conspiring to create a “false narrative” that his 2016 presidential campaign against Trump and Clinton was colluding with Russia to try to win the campaign. election that year.
Middlebrooks last year dismissed the lawsuit, which was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and blocked Trump from filing a complaint.
He later ordered Trump and his hubby to pay more than $937,000 in sanctions.
Middlebrooks called Trump “a mastermind of strategic abuse of judicial process” and a “prolific and sophisticated litigator who is repeatedly using the courts to take revenge on political opponents.”
A day after Middlebrook issued that order, Trump voluntarily dropped another lawsuit he had against New York Attorney General Letitia James pending before the same judge in Manhattan state court against Trump and his company for $ 250 million related to the fraud case.
Jared Roberts, a lawyer for Trump and Habba, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC about the appeal.
