The same thing happened fromn the lawyers dropping bull shit cases in courts around the country carrying Trump’s cries that voting was ‘rigged’….
This case was about Donalds Trump trying to sue Hillary Clinton afetr he beat her to compound her loss…
The Federal Judge would have none of this and has ordered the lawyers to pay for their ‘political agenda’….
The lawyers involved are STILL working for Trump on his developing civil and criminal cases….
A federal judge on Thursday excoriated and sanctioned several members of Donald Trump’s legal team, saying the former president’s massive lawsuit against his former rival, Hillary Clinton, and dozens of other adversaries amounted to an intentional abuse of the legal system.
“These were political grievances masquerading as legal claims,” said U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Florida-based jurist who dismissed Trump’s lawsuit in September. “This cannot be attributed to incompetent lawyering. It was a deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”
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In the Thursday order, Middlebrooks contended that Trump’s attorneys knowingly misrepresented facts in the far-ranging lawsuit, which accused a diverse range of defendants of intentionally sabotaging Trump’s presidential bid by raising false claims of Russian influence over his 2016 presidential campaign. He also accused them of using the lawsuit as a ploy to raise political contributions, calling it “performative litigation for purposes of fundraising and political statements.”
The judge said Trump’s lawyers pressed on with claims that were farcical or false, even after being put on notice that they were erroneous. In particular, he zeroed in on the suit’s assertion that Dolan, a Virginia public relations executive, was part of a conspiracy to tie Trump to Russian influence operations.
“The pleadings in this case contained factual allegations that were either knowingly false or made in reckless disregard for the truth,” wrote Middlebrooks.
“Mr. Trump’s lawyers were warned about the lack of foundation for their factual contentions [and] turned a blind eye towards information in their possession,”…
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Trump & Co. ain’t doing to good with judges these days….