Technobarbarian <technobarbarian-ztopzpam@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Judge scorches and sanctions Trump lawyers for lawsuit against Hillary
> Clinton and Democrats
>
> Kara Scannell
> By Kara Scannell
> Updated 11:22 AM EST, Fri November 11, 2022
>
> A federal judge on Thursday ordered sanctions against attorneys for
> former President Donald Trump in his failed lawsuit against Hillary
> Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and numerous others that he
> claimed conspired to undermine the 2016 presidential election.
>
> Judge Donald Middlebrooks ordered Trump lawyers Alina Habba, Michael
> Madaio, Peter Ticktin, Jamie Alan Sasson and their law firms to pay
> $50,000 in penalties to the court and $16,274.23 in legal fees to
> Charles Dolan, one of more than two dozen people or entities named as
> defendants in the lawsuit.
>
> Middlebrooks, who previously dismissed the lawsuit, calling it a
> “two-hundred page political manifesto,” said the attorneys ignored
> warnings from Dolan, a volunteer on the Clinton campaign, and his
> attorney that their facts were wrong, including basic information such
> as where he lived.
>
> “The pleadings in this case contained factual allegations that were
> either knowingly false or made in reckless disregard for the truth,”
> Middlebrooks wrote.
>
> “Not just initiated by a shotgun pleading, this was a shotgun lawsuit.
> Thirty-one individuals and organizations were summoned to court, forced
> to hire lawyers to defend against frivolous claims,” the judge wrote.
> “The only common thread against them was Mr. Trump’s animus.”
>
> Middlebrooks added: “Plaintiff deliberately misrepresented public
> documents by selectively using some portions while omitting other
> information including findings and conclusions that contradicted his
> narrative. … It was too frequent to be accidental. Every claim was
> frivolous, most barred by settled, well-established existing law. These
> were political grievances masquerading as legal claims.”
>
> “This cannot be attributed to incompetent lawyering,” he wrote. “It was
> a deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”
>
> Dolan’s lawyer, George Doumar, praised the ruling. “Trying to use the
> courts for political purposes undermines the foundations of our court
> system, I think that’s the message being sent. That message applies to
> lawyers and to clients,” Doumar said.
>
> Hillary Clinton Donald Trump SPLIT
> Judge throws out Trump's sprawling lawsuit against Hillary Clinton,
> ex-FBI officials over Russia probe
> “We gave Trump’s lawyers multiple warnings, and rather than heed the
> warnings and serve as gatekeepers of the integrity of the court system
> as lawyers are supposed to do, they doubled down on unsupported
> allegations and apparently chose not to tell their client that he was so
> wrong that they couldn’t go forward,” Doumar added.
>
> “It should be no surprise that we will be appealing this decision,”
> Habba said in a statement following the ruling.
>
> Ticktin called the ruling a “kick in the teeth.”
>
> “Of course, we are disappointed by the decision by Judge Middlebrooks.
> We attempted to right a wrong, and our reward is a kick in the teeth,”
> Ticktin told CNN. “Ultimately, this will be decided by a panel of three
> judges of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, as we believe that the
> dismissal and the sanctions which followed will ultimately be reversed.”
>
> Trump has also appealed the dismissal of the lawsuit."
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/10/politics/trump-dolan-lawsuit-sanctions/index.html
>
> "either knowingly false or made in reckless disregard for the
> truth" That's pretty much all you need to know about #45. It describes
> his entire life. Hillary will live on forever as one of the cult's
> biggest villains. Sort of like Eve in the Garden of Eden. LOL
>
> TB
>
>

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