Lawyers for the former Democratic presidential nominee filed a motion in federal court Monday asking the court to sanction Trump, characterizing the lawsuit as alleging Clinton and others conspired to undermine his 2016 campaign with charges for Russian “political” collusion. trick.” “A reasonable attorney would never have filed this lawsuit, let alone continued to prosecute it after multiple defendants’ motions to dismiss highlighted its fundamental and incurable flaws,” Clinton’s lawyers wrote, according to the Hill. Clinton’s legal team is seeking $1.06 million from Trump to cover the legal costs of all defendants named in his civil suit. The former president filed the civil suit in March, accusing Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, former British spy Christopher Steele and others of conspiring to undermine his 2016 presidential campaign with allegations of collusion with Russia. Trump claimed in the filings that he had suffered more than $24 million in losses as a result of rumors of collusion between his presidential campaign and Russia. Donald Trump filed the suit in March.AP US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1997, dismissed the lawsuit in September, citing “deficiencies in the plaintiff’s argument.” Trump’s legal team appealed the dismissal of the suit to the 11th Circuit. Trump’s lawyer, Alina Haba, accused Clinton of having political reasons for filing the motion seeking sanctions. “This proposal, conveniently filed a week before Election Day, is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to score political points,” Haba told the Hill. “This move is particularly inappropriate given that our client’s case will soon be heard by the Eleventh Circuit. We will oppose this motion and believe the Court will see through this ruse.”
