Donald Trump sues Hillary Clinton

Former US President Donald Trump has sued his former opponent, Hillary Clinton, and other Democratic Party politicians for defamation in connection with the so-called Russia case.

In the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election, Clinton and her followers “conspired out of sheer malice to fabricate the false narrative” that Republican candidate Trump was working with Russia, according to a lawsuit received in a Florida federal court Thursday. Legal action. The lawsuit says that in order to support their “plots,” Clinton and her supporters “falsified evidence and defrauded law enforcement agencies” and “abused their access to highly sensitive databases.” This is so “outrageous, anti-state and scorching” that the Watergate case looks “pale” by comparison.

FBI chief also charged

In addition to Clinton, who ran against Trump in the 2016 presidential election, the document also lists Clinton’s campaign manager at the time, John Podesta, and former FBI chief James Comey as defendants, as well as the law firm Perkins Coe, who was involved in the Democratic campaign and Fusion GPS.

Also named was former British secret agent Christopher Steele, who prepared a dossier before the 2016 presidential election that was said to contain disinformation about Trump. Trump has repeatedly called Steele’s file “fake”. newspaper too The New York Times He concluded that there was no supporting evidence for many of Steele’s claims.

Trump is calling for a jury trial over his allegations. He is also demanding damages of no less than $72 million.

The so-called Russia affair was the subject of an intense investigation by then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The question was whether Trump and his campaign team were working with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

The Mueller report cites several meetings between Trump associates and the Russians, but the report fails to reveal evidence of the Trump campaign team’s complicity with Russia. So Trump announced a complete acquittal after the Mueller report was published.