Hillary Clinton bashes Trump’s ‘wholly meritless’ second attempt to disqualify ‘harsh’ judge who tossed ‘frivolous’ RICO lawsuit

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

Former U.S. President Donald Trump spoke during a campaign rally at Legacy Sports USA on October 9, 2022 in Mesa, Arizona (photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images). Hillary Clinton attended an event on September 10, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario (photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images).

Attorneys for Hillary Clinton and others have filed their opening reply to Donald Trump’s appeal of his defeated lawsuit alleging she rigged the 2016 election against him — a claim a judge found so “frivolous” and replete with conspiracy theories that he labeled the lawsuit more of a “political manifesto” than a meritorious complaint.

As Law&Crime previously reported, in 2022 Trump sued Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., former FBI Director James Comey, former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, and several others, alleging a racketeering (RICO) scheme in which they targeted then-candidate Trump. Trump’s case was dismissed in September and he had sanctions imposed on him of roughly $1 million because the case he brought against Clinton and others should never have been brought to begin with, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a Bill Clinton appointee, ruled. The judge found that Trump’s lawsuit was nothing more than “a deliberate attempt to harass” a former political rival and those he perceived as enemies.

In February, Trump asked the appeals court to toss the costly sanctions against him arguing they were inapplicable and that the district court “abused its discretion” because he was never afforded the change to remedy any deficiencies in his claims. Trump’s appeal at length relitigated many of the grievances he had in the case to start, including his contention that the judge handling the case should have been removed.

In Clinton’s joint appeal entered on June 3, her attorney David Kendall zeroed in on this rehashing, pushing back on Trump’s assertions that there was a conflict of interest by the judge, that Trump was inappropriately time-barred from making his complaints and, among many other contentions, that the court wrongfully failed to include what Trump insisted were new allegations made in the controversial and oft-slammed as politically-partisan Durham Report.

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