[OldBill]

YOU cant make this shit up

By Jan Wolfe and Jonathan Stempel

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Thursday sued his rival in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Hillary Clinton, and several other Democrats, alleging that they tried to rig that election by tying his campaign to Russia.
The lawsuit covers a long list of grievances the Republican former president repeatedly aired during his four years in the White House after beating Clinton, and comes as he continues to falsely claim that his 2020 election defeat by Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of widespread fraud.
"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 108-page lawsuit filed in a federal court in Florida.
The suit alleges "racketeering" and a "conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood," among other claims.
A Clinton representative did not respond to a request for comment.
The suit seeks 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."



Jeff Grell, a lawyer who specializes in racketeering cases, said Trump may have waited too long in bringing his racketeering claims. Civil racketeering claims are governed by a four-year statute of limitations, Grell said, but there is usually a big dispute about when that four-year period begins to run.



Grell said defendants may also argue various defenses, such as that Trump’s lawsuit ignores the immunity granted to government agents, the lawsuit doesn’t set forth a pattern of racketeering — which is required for liability — or the lawsuit seeks to chill the exercise of free speech.



Such defenses are usually resolved only after protracted litigation, Grell said.
The defendants in Trump's lawsuit include Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer.
A dossier written by Steele, which was circulated to the FBI and media outlets before the November 2016 election, set out unproven assertions that Russia had embarrassing information about Trump and some of his Republican campaign's advisers and that Moscow was working behind the scenes to defeat Clinton.
A 966-page report issued by a Republican-led U.S. Senate committee in 2020 concluded that Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to try to help Trump win the 2016 election.
Manafort worked on Trump's presidential campaign for five months in 2016.
Russia’s alleged election interference, which Moscow denies, sparked a two-year-long U.S. investigation headed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

In 2019, Mueller released an exhaustive report that detailed numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign but did not charge any Trump associate with a criminal conspiracy.
Mueller said in his report that "the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.”
(Reporting by Jan Wolfe in Washington and Jonathan Stempel in New YorkEditing by Scott Malone, Chris Reese and Leslie Adler)

[OldBill]

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney





Thu, March 24, 2022, 2:11 PM







Former President Donald Trump is suing 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a sprawling case that accuses her of conspiring with dozens of other actors — frequent targets of Trump’s conspiracy theories and rage — to topple his presidency.


The new lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Fort Pierce, Fla., accuses Clinton, her campaign, various campaign aides, former FBI Director James Comey, the Democratic National Committee and others of racketeering conspiracy for allegedly joining in “an unthinkable plot” to falsely accuse Trump of colluding with Russia in the 2016 presidential election.

“In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts orchestrated an unthinkable plot – one that shocks the conscience and is an affront to this nation’s democracy,” the complaint says. “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 suit accused the defendants of obstruction of justice and theft of trade secrets, as well as unlawful hacking into Trump’s private communications.

“The actions taken in furtherance of their scheme—falsifying evidence, deceiving law enforcement, and exploiting access to highly-sensitive data sources—are so outrageous, subversive and incendiary that even the events of Watergate pale in comparison,” the complaint adds.

The sprawling, 108-page complaint reads like a greatest-hits of Trump’s long-held grievances against the public figures most closely associated with the investigation of his campaign’s ties to Russia in 2016. It stitches together disparate details unearthed in the ongoing investigation by special counsel John Durham, as well as long-known details about the FBI’s Russia probe and special counsel Robert Mueller’s subsequent investigation.


The suit appears to seek more than $72 million in damages, which the complaint says is the tally of legal fees and other costs of defending against the alleged untruths. In another court filing in the case, Trump’s attorneys asked for only $21 million.


Among the defendants in the case is a former State Department official and spokesperson for Clinton, Philippe Reines. The only specific allegations against him in the suit are that he made public statements suggesting that Trump had worked with Russia in 2016 and that he had serious legal woes.


The suit says that after Trump reportedly blocked sanctions on Russia in 2018, Reines tweeted: “yes collusion, yes collusion, yes collusion.” The suit also alleges that after publication of Mueller’s report in 2019, Reines said on Fox News that Trump was still “under investigation by 17 other entities including the Southern District of New York.”



Reines responded nonchalantly to the suit Thursday. “I look forward to deposing the plaintiff,” he wrote on Twitter.

Another defendant in the suit, former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, said through his attorney that the suit was likely wildly inaccurate.
“We haven’t had a chance to read the complaint, but knowing the former president, there’s probably very little in there that’s true,” said the lawyer, Aitan Goelman.

Goelman also said it was “odd” that Trump was filing a new suit against Strzok and others while the former president is fighting efforts to depose him in connection with a suit Strzok has filed claiming he was fired from the FBI for political reasons.

The suit was filed by Alina Habba, a Bedminster, N.J.,-based attorney Trump tapped last year after dismissing other more prominent lawyers who had been handling much of the wide range of litigation he faces in various courts. A Deerfield Beach, Fla.,-based lawyer, Peter Ticktin, is serving as the lead local counsel.
In the public docket for the case, Trump’s attorneys included the home addresses of the vast majority of the defendants in the suit. For Trump, however, they listed the address of Ticktin’s law firm.
The suit was assigned on Thursday to U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks, who is based in West Palm Beach, Fla., and was appointed by former President Bill Clinton. In 2015, Middlebrooks tossed out a civil racketeering suit filed against Hillary Clinton over her practice of using a private email account and server while she served as secretary of State.
Betsy Woodruff Swan contributed to this report.

[OldBill]

ONE thing i notice is where are they goona get 71 MILLION Dollars from? where does that money come from ?

LIKE i havent even seen 1 Million dollars in my life time average income working about $15,000 a year when i was working

i d come up with 650,000 over 45 years working

[OldBill]

A top prosecutor who abruptly left the Manhattan DA's office said in his resignation letter there's 'no doubt' that Trump committed 'numerous' felonies

One of the two top prosecutors who suddenly left the Manhattan district attorney's office last month said in his resignation letter that he believes former President Donald Trump is guilty of "numerous" felonies, The New York Times reported.

"The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did," the prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, said in his resignation letter, according to The Times.

Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, the other senior prosecutor who was leading the DA's criminal investigation into the Trump Organization's business dealings, resigned in February after the new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, expressed doubts about moving forward with a case against the former president.

Pomerantz said in his resignation letter, dated February 23, that Trump was in fact "guilty of numerous felony violations" and that it would be a "grave failure of justice" to not hold him accountable for his actions, according to The Times.


The report said that Pomerantz and Dunne had planned to charge Trump with falsifying business records, which is a felony in the state of New York.


But Bragg's reluctance to pursue a criminal case against Trump, and Pomerantz and Dunne's subsequent resignations, has thrown the fate of the long-running criminal investigation into disarray.

A spokesperson for the DA's office previously told Insider that "the investigation is ongoing" and "we can't comment further."
The DA's office had fought to keep the resignation letters of Pomerantz and Dunne from becoming public.

The letters "reflect internal deliberations and opinions about an ongoing investigation," a records official told Insider in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. "Further, the documents reference matters attending a grand jury proceeding, which is exempt from disclosure."

The DA's office previously indicted the Trump Organization and its longtime chief bookkeeper, Allen Weisselberg, on 15 felony counts.



The first round of charges stemming from the inquiry, brought against the Trump Organization and Weisselberg, zeroed in on alleged tax-evasion schemes.

But the investigation later shifted to focus on whether the Trump Organization, and Trump himself, artificially inflated or deflated the value of assets for loan and tax purposes, respectively.


The DA's investigation had recently homed in on whether Trump exaggerated his financial net worth when applying for loans.

His longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, cut ties with him earlier in February after determining, based on revelations from a separate civil investigation by the New York attorney general's office, that ten years of his financial statements "should no longer be relied upon."

[ABEHONEST]

I hope Donald cleans her drawers out.

[TheGoldenGoose]

Nobody cares.
Trump is an attention whore.

[ABEHONEST]

Nobody cares.
Trump is an attention whore.

Maybe is now because he was..........CHEATED OUT OF OFFICE?