Donald Trump is taking a racketeering case against Hillary Clinton to a federal appeal court.
On Friday, a federal judge gave Trump until September 27 to file a brief of up to 10,000 words on why the case would be heard.
Trump took a civil Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations [RICO] against Clinton for allegedly trying to rig the 2016 election against him.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton (R) and Republican nominee Donald Trump walk off the stage after their final presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 19, 2016. Trump is now suing Clinton, alleging that she conspired against him during the 2016 election.
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He is seeking over $70 million dollars in compensation from Clinton and over two dozen other defendants. He claims that he had to spend over $24 million dollars defending himself from false accusations of Russian collusion in the 2016 election.
The lawsuit, filed in March 2022, also names the Democratic National Committee, Democratic congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz; former FBI director James Comey among the defendants.
Newsweek sought email comment from Clinton; Waterman Schultz; Comey and the Trump campaign on Monday.
Florida circuit appeal court judge, Kevin Newsom wrote on Friday that he would extend the maximum word length on Trump’s court filing to 10,000 words, up from the usual 6,500 words permitted by the court.
“Appellants’ unopposed motion to exceed the word limitation in their consolidated reply brief and to enlarge the time to file that brief is GRANTED.”
“The consolidated reply brief, which may not exceed 10,000 words, is due by September 27, 2024.”
In late August, Trump asked Clinton’s counsel for consent in order to obtain the since-granted extension—citing “pressing hearings occurring in other cases.” The original deadline was August 30. The original word limit, under court rules, was 6,500 words.
In his March, 2022 lawsuit, Trump alleged Clinton was involved in “a nefarious scheme to discredit, delegitimize and defame” Trump’s presidential campaign.
In a strongly worded judgment in September, 2022, Florida federal judge, Donald M. Middlebrooks, completely rejected Trump’s claim.
He accused Trump of “seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum.”
Middlebrooks also attacked “the audacity of Plaintiff’s legal theories and the manner in which they clearly contravene binding case law.”
“Such pleadings waste judicial resources and are an unacceptable form of establishing a claim for relief,” he added.
Trump is now seeking to appeal that decision. Ultimately, he is seeking millions of dollars in compensation from the defendants for an alleged conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 election, in which Trump defeated Clinton to become 45th president.
