Former President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a $24 million federal
lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National
Committee launched a wide-ranging �unthinkable plot� in 2016 to smear him
and his campaign as colluding with Russian officials.

In the suit, filed in the Southern District of Florida, Trump claims the
goal was to fabricate a scandal in an effort to �cripple� his bid for the
presidency.

�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,� he says in the 108-page
complaint.

�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 45th president alleges that the scheme concocted by Clinton, the
Democratic presidential nominee, and others falsified evidence, deceived
law enforcement and 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,� according to the
filing.

�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 six years after the election in
which he defeated Clinton, claims.

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 suit says.

In a footnote, the legal papers identified the Justice Department, the
Office of the Inspector General, the four FISA applications and �Crossfire
Hurricane� � the code name given to the FBI�s counterintelligence
investigation into possible links between Russian officials and the Trump
campaign.

Clinton and the other Democrats �blinded by political ambition�
masterminded the plot to spread false information about then-candidate
Trump, �all in the hopes of destroying his life, his political career and
rigging the 2016 Presidential Election in favor of Hillary Clinton,� the
suit alleges.

When the scheme failed and Trump was elected, the Democrats shifted their
focus to eat away at the credibility of the Trump administration, the
filings says.

�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 complaint also alleges that the Democrats violated the federal
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations 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 DNC
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 dossier.

Trump has long accused Democrats and the Clinton campaign of conspiring to
link him to alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election � the
subject of unsuccessful impeachment proceedings against Trump when he was
in office.

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
wide 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.

But Mueller�s investigation found that the Trump campaign was �receptive�
to Russian help.

But he didn't accept any money like Joe and Hunter Biden did.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/24/trump-sues-hillary-clinton-dnc-over-
unthinkable-russia-plot-in-2016-election/