Donald Trump sues Hillary Clinton, others over Russian collusion allegations

[steve2470]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump-sues-hillary-clinton-others-over-russian-collusion-allegations-2022-03-24/

WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Thursday sued Hillary Clinton and several other Democrats, alleging they tried to rig the 2016 U.S. presidential election by tying his campaign to Russia.

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ETA: Can we say MASSIVE GRIFTING OPPORTUNITY OF THE REPUBLICAN BASE RUBES ?


eta2, from same article:

"Acting in concert, the Defendants maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty," the former president alleged in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida.

Trump, who beat Democratic nominee Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, alleges "racketeering" and a "conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood," among other claims.

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In the lawsuit, Trump is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. Trump said he was "forced to incur expenses in an amount to be determined at trial, but known to be in excess of twenty-four million dollars ($24,000,000) and continuing to accrue, in the form of defense costs, legal fees, and related expenses."

$24M USD ? What total grifting BS.

[Scrivener7]

1. Wouldn't it be great if this guy EVER paid for the things he did?

I wish we had a government department that took care of stuff like that.

[Jerry2144]

2. Discovery in this case

Will be fun. Grab the popcorn. Dotard Donnie will have to turn over records during discovery.

[steve2470]

4. I think he will oh so suddenly drop the case right before then...

Right about the time when his lawyers get really demanding about being paid and when he would get totally embarrassed by discovery. Even after legal fees (which, I forgot, the RNC will probably be paying for), he will put in his own pockets millions of USD from the rubes.

[Midnight Writer]

5. In which case a counter-suit would be appropriate.

[steve2470]

8. agreed ! nt

[jonstl08]

7. my first thought

He and all his henchmen including his kids would be called as witnesses. Manafort, Stone, all of them. Would be fun to see them squirm on the stand. Plus all the paperwork they will have to turn over

[exboyfil]

9. And that should be amplified in the media

Clinton et al should countersue to keep the process going even after he wants to back out.

Can you plead the 5th when you are the plaintiff in a lawsuit? Also doesn't executive privilege go away?

Time for Clinton to do a little fishing.

[BComplex]

12. My thoughts exactly! Discovery will NOT make trump a happy boy.

[librechik]

17. oh yeah. Proceed, Mr. Trizzump n/t

[Wounded Bear]

19. Discovery MUST start with a reading of the full Mueller Report into evidence...

It's only fair.

[Jerry2144]

24. I like how we think

Let’s hope that it proceeds along these lines

[jonstl08]

25. Rock ON

[badhair77]

3. He is never happy unless he's suing someone.

I guess it’s Hillary’s turn.

[zaj]

6. Discovery, please.

[Samrob]

21. Great! Now the job Robert Mueller left undone.

Discovery will be a bitch for Trumpians to deal with.

[PortTack]

10. Thought at first this must be the onion..what idiot attorneys take on these useless cases

[allegorical oracle]

28. MSNBC reports that a former friend/atty who attended the NY Military Academy w/ drumpf

filed the lawsuit in Florida. The guy (whose name I missed) also wrote a book about his time w/ TFG.

Am not an attorney, so I have a question: Would filing this suit somehow prevent trump from being subpoenaed, deposed, or testifying in the numerous lawsuits -- or the Jan. 6 investigation -- that he faces? Am remembering all the times djt said he couldn't produce his tax returns because he was being audited.

[gratuitous]

11. From the story

Trump's allegations in the lawsuit are undermined by a 966-page report issued by a Republican-led U.S. Senate committee in August 2020. That report concluded that Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to try to help Trump win the 2016 election.

All right, let's get Paul Manafort, Julian Assange, and everyone named in the Senate report to come in and give their sworn deposition testimony. The Notice of Dismissal will probably have scorch marks on it from the haste with which the former guy's attorneys decide this wasn't such a good idea.

[JT45242]

13. Have his lawyers never heard of discovery for civil cases

Just imagine the countersuit ...

He gets deposed and pleads the 5th 1,000 times.

Eric pleads the first ...'cause Eric.

Cocaine brags -- of course we got help from the Russians - that's how we paid off the loans instead of money.

Bring it on.

[BeyondGeography]

14. The "Russia, if you're listening" guy?

[Maeve]

15. Beat me to it!

[Frustratedlady]

16. Would someone give that idiot a new box of crayons or some such to keep him busy?

All he can come up with is lawsuits. There is surely a limit to how much court time one person can use for their own fund raising...that IS what he's doing.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

18. Maybe trump will sue Joe Biden next

And then he'll sue everybody that voted for Joe.

[MissMillie]

20. Here's a llink to the suit... 108 pages

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157.1.0.pdf


I love a good comedy, don't you?

[allegorical oracle]

31. Law and Crime gives some opinions about the suit and the law firm. (link)

FYI, Law and Crime is attorney/commentator Dan Abrams' site.

https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/trump-files-massive-lawsuit-against-hillary-clinton-putting-his-theories-of-an-unthinkable-racketeering-plot-against-him-to-the-test/

[Thomas Hurt]

22. This is the Pig Grifter working up another scam, not to take money from Clinton...

to take more money for the cultists. Another "cause".

[dalton99a]

23. Helsinki, July 16, 2018:

REPORTER (Jeff Mason from Reuters): President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?

PUTIN: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the US/Russia relationship back to normal.

[allegorical oracle]

26. This snip is from Bloomberg News's Anthony Lin:

Former President Donald Trump sued Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party and several others, alleging a vast conspiracy to malign his character and cast doubt on the legitimacy of his 2016 election win.

The suit, filed Thursday in federal court in Florida, named more than a dozen defendants, many of whom have long been vilified in right-wing media as enemies of Trump. In addition to Clinton, they include former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta, and British intelligence ex-agent Christopher Steele.

Link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-24/trump-sues-hillary-clinton-democrats-claiming-2016-conspiracy

[Wounded Bear]

29. Well, any "enemy of trump" is a true patriot in my judgement...

[tishaLA]

27. And the RNC will probably pay his legal bills

Sec Clinton et al should just have the text of the Mueller report entered into the record. Open and shut case.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. TFG cannot hire even third tier lawyers

This lawsuit is a joke and the attorneys who filed it are not even third tier attorneys. TFG could get an attorney he knew in High School to file this amusing lawsuit

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In addition, this idiot is involved

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[Cha]

32. FO Putin's Puppet.. you Ugly MF

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