{"id":76740,"date":"2022-03-25T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=76740"},"modified":"2022-03-25T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:44:34","slug":"trump-sues-hillary-clinton-over-russia-collusion-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=76740","title":{"rendered":"Trump sues Hillary Clinton over Russia collusion accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> Former US president Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party leaders and others alleging they falsely accused him of colluding with Russia ahead of the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

“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 filed in a federal court in Florida said.<\/p>\n

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“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,” it said. “They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald J. Trump.”<\/p>\n

“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 added.<\/p>\n

Besides Clinton, other named defendants include the Democratic National Committee, John Podesta, who served as chairman of Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, and former FBI director James Comey.<\/p>\n

Also named as a defendant was Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer who produced a dossier ahead of the election containing allegedly compromising information about Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump repeatedly denounced the Steele dossier as “fake” and The New York Times determined there was no corroborating evidence to support many of its claims.<\/p>\n

A Russian analyst who contributed to the dossier has been indicted in the United States for lying to FBI agents investigating some of its findings.<\/p>\n

Also named as defendants were the Perkins Coie law firm, which was working for the Clinton campaign, and Fusion GPS, a private firm which Perkins Coie hired to do opposition research.<\/p>\n

Trump is seeking a jury trial and at least $72 million in damages.<\/p>\n

Former special counsel Robert Mueller investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and revealed multiple meetings between Trump advisers and Russians.<\/p>\n

But Mueller stopped short of saying that the Trump campaign had engaged in a criminal conspiracy with Russia, leading Trump to proclaim that there was “no collusion.”<\/p>\n

A report released by a Republican-led Senate panel also revealed multiple contacts between members of the Trump campaign and Russian officials but it did not affirm there was a conspiracy either.<\/p>\n

The Senate report found that one of Trump's former campaign managers, Paul Manafort, had a long-standing relationship with Konstantin Kilimnik, an alleged Russian intelligence officer, and had passed on internal campaign information to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: Former US president Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party leaders and others alleging they falsely accused him of colluding with Russia ahead of the 2016 election. “In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts orchestrated an unthinkable plot — one that shocks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":76741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n