Former President of the United States Donald Trump has made a payment of more than $975,000 to a Florida court to suspend a lawsuit against him that forces him to pay $ 920,000 for denouncing the former presidential candidate for a “frivolous” conspiracy without legal basis Hillary Clinton and other political personalities.
He republican leader and his lawyer Alina Habba They have offered to pay the amount of 1.03 million dollars, while they appeal the order of a federal judge, who fined the former president some 937,000 dollars for filing a lawsuit without any legal basis and for purely political reasons. against rivals like Hillary Clinton or the former director of the FBI James Comey.
As he has collected BloombergTrump and Habba have offered to pay even more bail than the court was asking for, also asking that he suspend his order while they appealed.
The candidate for re-election to the White House and his team of lawyers have claimed that his offer represents 110 percent of the total fine and that he is not opposed by Clinton.
The case was presented in March of last year by Trump’s lawyer -also fined in this ruling-, Alina Habba, and it is a lawsuit filed by Clinton, Comey and the Democratic Party National Committee among others for allegedly orchestrating a conspiracy against him by accusing him of collaborating with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
“Its inadequacy as a legal claim was apparent from the start,” confirmed the federal judge handling the case on Trump’s lawsuit. “No reasonable attorney would have brought her forward. Intended for a political purpose, none of the charges in the amended complaint established a cognizable legal claim,” he added.
(With information from Europa Press)
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