At Long Last, Trump Does Something By Charles Taylor (Florida)
Whoa, at long last Donald Trump is doing something about the Hillary Clinton scam that Russia stole the 2016 election, and suing her. Well, the evidence is now in, so it should be interesting. A pity though that nothing is being done along these lines regarding the stolen 2020 election, which is more relevant. Still, if the Donald gets cashed up from this case, maybe he might try the next one.
“Former President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee were behind a wide-ranging “unthinkable plot” to smear him and his 2016 presidential campaign as colluding with Russian officials in order to fabricate an explosive scandal and derail his bid for the White House.
“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,” reads the lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of Florida.
“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 alleges in the filing.
The 45th president claims that the scheme concocted by Clinton and others falsified evidence, deceived law enforcement, exploited “access to highly-sensitive data sources” and was “so outrageous, subversive and incendiary that even the events of Watergate pale in comparison.”
Using the guise of opposition research and data analytics — an apparent nod to the highly controversial Christopher Steele dossier — Clinton and the Democrats sought to “sway the public’s trust,” Trump alleges.
They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald J. Trump. Indeed, their far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple Trump’s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media frenzy,” claims the suit, filed nearly five-and-a-half years after the election in which Trump defeated Clinton.
The scheme was “conceived, coordinated and carried out by top-level officials at the Clinton Campaign and the DNC – including ‘the candidate’ herself – who attempted to shield her involvement behind a wall of third parties,” the filing says.
According to Trump, Clinton and the other Democrats, “blinded by political ambition,” masterminded the plot to spread false information “all in the hopes of destroying his [Trump’s] life, his political career and rigging the 2016 Presidential Election in favor of Hillary Clinton.”
When the scheme failed and Trump was elected, the Democrats allegedly shifted their focus to eating away at the credibility of the Trump administration.
“Worse still, the Defendants continue to spread their vicious lies to this day as they unabashedly publicize their thoroughly debunked falsehoods in an effort to ensure that he will never be elected again,” the former president says in the suit.
The filing alleges that the Democrats violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, among other offenses.
Trump is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, claiming that 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.”
Along with Clinton and the DNC, the lawsuit names as defendants former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz; Clinton campaign chief John Podesta; the law firm Perkins Coie; the research firm Fusion GPS; former FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page; and Christopher Steele, the ex-British intelligence agent who authored the now-notorious dossier.
Trump has long accused Democrats and the Clinton campaign of conspiring to link him to alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
But a heavily redacted report issued in August 2020 by the Republican-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that Russia was behind a plot to subvert the integrity of the 2016 elections, an effort that “represents one of the single most grave counterintelligence threats to American national security in the modem era.”
“The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election,” the panel said in the 966-page report.
The report also said former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who had connections with pro-Russian officials in Ukraine, worked with the WikiLeaks website to help Trump win in 2016.
The Senate committee’s findings, like the report issued by special counsel Robert Mueller in May 2019, did not conclude that Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government, though Mueller’s investigation found that the Trump campaign was “receptive” to Russian help.
The Clinton Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment by the former first lady, senator from New York and secretary of state.”
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