Former President Donald Trump and his lawyers must pay almost $1 million in sanctions after filing a "completely frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. In a Thursday ruling, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ordered Trump and his lead attorney, Alina Habba of Habba Madaio & Associates, to pay $937,989.39.
The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by Trump in March 2022. Trump's suit accused Clinton, the Democratic Party, the Democratic National Committee, former FBI Director James Comey, and a number of others of a racketeering "plot" against him. Clinton and the others had "maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty" during the 2016 election, it said.
