Donald Trump sought to avoid paying more than $1 million in legal fees and costs to Hillary Clinton and dozens of others by arguing he was justified in accusing them of participating in a vast conspiracy against him.
“The imposition of sanctions is a drastic remedy,” Trump attorney Alina Habba said in a filing Monday night in federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida, calling Clinton’s demand for fees and costs “exorbitant.”
U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the suit in September, ruling the 193-page complaint amounted to a “manifesto” that was filed too late and failed to back up Trump’s claims about the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into Russian collusion.
