Donald Trump’s lawyers failed to meet a key filing deadline in his effort to stop the United States from being removed as a defendant in a lawsuit in which the former president accused Hillary Clinton and various officials of conspiring against him during the Russia probe.
U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks on Friday said Trump failed to respond by Sept. 1 to a motion to dismiss filed by the U.S. government, which is one of many defendants in the suit filed under a civil racketeering law.
Middlebrooks, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, granted Trump an extension to Sept. 6, but had a warning for the former president.
