Donald Trump on Friday 13 January 2023. Portal
The justice offensive promoting ex-President Donald Trump against everyone and everything suffered a major setback this Friday, halfway between warning and remedy, after a federal judge ridiculed and denounced a Republican lawsuit against some of his rival politicians Tycoon’s legal request and his legal team’s denial for allowing themselves to be carried away “by their bad faith.” In addition to the severe disqualification, the judge fined the Republican and his attorneys for wasting the judiciary’s time with a lawsuit that, the verdict shows, should not even have been allowed to proceed. The lawsuit was filed last March by Trump’s attorney Alina Habba against Democrat Hillary Clinton, her 2016 election rival, the Democratic National Committee and former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly staging a conspiracy against the Republican in line with Russian interference in the elections filed led him to the White House.
Florida Southern District Judge Donald Middlebrooks has not spared any qualms in admonishing the magnate whose righteous conduct he condemns and ridiculing a lawsuit that “no sane attorney would have considered.” , because it lacks “no recognizable legal basis”. , are based on “malicious intent” and intend to “promote a dishonest political narrative” through “categorically absurd” claims. The judge has fined the former US President and his 18-strong legal team $937,000 (around €850,000) for acting without legal basis, for purely political reasons and “recklessly”.
The judicialization of politics has reached record highs with Trump, in a country where the canopies of street furniture or the large billboards that line the freeways are peppered with advertisements from law firms — demand just in case, of a fall on public streets or in a business burning from too-hot coffee — not to mention Hollywood’s prolific legal subgenre. Trump is in and out of court almost every day and has multiple lawsuits pending against him, but the lawsuit he has filed against Clinton and other Democrats has, according to the ruling, pulverized the boundaries of relevance. “It’s nothing more than a hodgepodge of disjointed, sometimes irrelevant facts followed by an invalid conclusion, which together constitute a deliberate attempt at bullying,” continued the judge, who was appointed in 1997 by then-Democratic President Bill Clinton.
“Genius of Abuse”
The argument of the theorem has no waste. The judge describes Trump as “a genius at strategically misusing the legal process” and a “productive litigator who constantly uses the courts to exact revenge on his political enemies.” “You cannot be seen as a client blindly following the advice of your lawyers. He is fully aware of the ramifications of his actions,” the judge adds, leaving his legal team in a very bad place, and particularly attorney Alina Habba, who drafted and presented the lawsuit, aptly echoed by former Secretary of State Clinton . “Joy like this,” Middlebrooks insists, “should not be a vehicle for fundraisers or fodder for social media.”
Last November, Trump officially presented his candidacy for re-election in the 2024 presidential election after learning that Joe Biden, his rival in the 2020 election, was also hiding classified documents in various locations — just like Trump is doing in his residence in the March did. a-Lago, registered by the FBI―, the tycoon puffs his chest as he gathers judgments against him over tax irregularities at his trading hub, the Trump Organization, which are the subject of two parallel investigations in New York. The Republican has another important open front after the commission investigating the attack on the Capitol decided to subpoena him to testify and eventually prosecute him for committing various crimes, including obstruction of justice and insurgency.
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