Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the opening of “Vital Voices Women’s Embassy”, just days after a leak revealed the possibility of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2022.
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A federal judge dismissed former President Donald Trump’s sprawling lawsuit alleging Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and many others conspired to spread a false narrative of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
In a searing order Thursday, Judge Donald Middlebrooks said that Trump’s lawsuit was merely “seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him.”
The former president’s claims “are not only unsupported by any legal authority but plainly foreclosed by binding precedent,” Middlebrooks wrote in U.S. District Court in southern Florida.
Trump filed the lawsuit in March, seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages for violations of the RICO Act, a federal law that aims to combat organized crime, among other claims. It came more than five years after Trump defeated Clinton in a vicious and scandal-soaked presidential campaign where Trump’s relationship with Russia was a major focus.
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