Florida judge rules against Trump for ‘frivolous’ lawsuit against Clinton

WEST PALM BEACH (FLV) – A Southern District of Florida judge ruled against former President Donald Trump because of his “frivolous” lawsuit against Hillary Clinton.

U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks ordered the former president and his attorney, Alina Habba, to pay around $1 million to the defendants.

Trump was suing Clinton over claims the Democrat rival tried to rig the election by linking his campaign to Russia.

“This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim,” Middlebrooks said.

The lawsuit was rejected late last year by Middlebrooks.

“He is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him,” Middlebrooks said in a September ruling.

In the January sanction ruling, Middlebrooks said Trump has a history of “abuse of the courts” in filing lawsuits for political purposes.

“Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” the judge said. “He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process.”

The Trump-Russia collusion narrative gained steam from the Clinton campaign and news reports, resulting in a special counsel being appointed to investigate the president for a large portion of his term in office until 2019.

Special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election.