Trump and lawyers sanctioned almost $1 million for 'frivolous' lawsuit against Hillary Clinton

[moonshinegnomie]

Source: cnbc

A federal judge on Thursday imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions on former President Donald Trump and his lawyers for filing a “frivolous” lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and others.

“This case should never have been brought,” wrote Judge John Middlbrooks in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in his order sanctioning Trump.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/trump-and-lawyers-sanctioned-almost-1-million-for-frivolous-lawsuit-against-hillary-clinton.html

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not nearly enough but its a good start

[Botany]

1. "He will never have another good day."

Link to tweet

[Cha]

4. Thank You! I love the way Peter Marks said that!!

Link to tweet

[NJCher]

10. watching Lawrence right now

at the moment he's covering SC investigation, but this topic is coming up. I can't wait!



One million in sanctions is indeed rare, and I'll bet the rest of the judiciary is applauding it. Trump uses the judicial system for his theatrics and to delay punishment: there is no reason to permit this.

[progressoid]

13. Does it make someone a bad person to wish the same fate on his rabid followers?

Asking for a friend.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. GOOD!

[agingdem]

5. and remember others were involved in this lawsuit..

Hillary's million is only the beginning...

[dpibel]

18. Unfortunately, no

From the order:

I previously granted Defendant Charles Dolan’s motion for sanctions, brought pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. (DE 284). Now before me is a motion seeking sanctions brought by eighteen other Defendants.

[Moosepoop]

21. Why is this "unfortunate?"

The judge awarded Dolan $50,000 from four of the attorneys last November.

Dolan was the first defendant in Trump's lawsuit to request sanctions, and the first to get them.

This latest round included Trump himself in the sanctions, though, which is new.

[dpibel]

22. This is not just the beginning

Post #5, to which I was responding, said that this million is just the beginning, and that the other defendants would be getting more than that.

At least that's how I read the post.

And I was pointing out that such is not the case. This sanctions order is fees for all the attorneys involved in the litigation except the Dolan fees that were already disposed of.

The "unfortunately" was directed at the fact that this is not the beginning of a series of fee awards. It's the one and only. At least for this particular case.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Taking the Pig's money doesn't make him happy I imagine....

but he will con the Trumpfucks out of more. A million is probably easy.

[ShazzieB]

6. Good grief.

“This case should never have been brought,” wrote Judge John Middlebrooks in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in his order sanctioning Trump for the civil suit, which the judge previously dismissed.

“Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start,” Middlebrooks wrote.

“No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim.”

Where the hell does the Orange Hellbeast find these crackpot lawyers to file all these garbage suits for him that "no reasonable lawyer would have filed"? There seem to be an awful lot of them!

[leftieNanner]

11. Keep in mind

Gym Jordan went to law school.

[ShazzieB]

23. Oh, I know all kinds of awful people go to law school.

I mean, Kayleigh McEnany, right? Matt Gaetz, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis..the list goes on and on.

I know this, and I don't understand it one bit. That such people can be intellectually capable of getting through law school and yet so...intellectually limited in so many ways. I. Just. Don't . Get. It.

[NJCher]

24. I'll 'splain that

Sometime when I’m not on my iPad.

[machoneman]

31. R-law schools where a turnip can get a degree!

[LiberalLovinLug]

43. There's the stupid, and those that play at stupid to take advantage of the stupid

[orleans]

17. and i was under the impression trump doesn't pay his lawyers anyway

so, who would file this crap for trump? either a bunch of suckers or suck-ups!

[Bev54]

7. What about taking away their law licenses?

[Major Nikon]

16. That is the real solution, but will probably never happen

There’s little doubt Trump raised far more money off these stunts than he will ever pay in fines. Going after the lawyers is the only sensible way to stop it.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. "That is the real solution, but will probably never happen"

They are working on the most egregious of them (whose license is currently suspended in NY and D.C.). We'll find out some time in Feb./Mar. when an Appeals Court rules on the D.C. recommendation.

The Kraken team leader is awaiting a TX decision related to discipline that could lead to disbarment.

[Major Nikon]

27. A few will, most won't

Until they go after all of them Trump will still have no problem finding shysters to do his bidding.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. The top ones can and should be put out to pasture through disbarment

where the lower rung ones don't or never will have the resources of that "top tier" to fight those types of punitive measures, and will effectively be out of business upon sanctions and suspensions, even if their licenses are still intact. As more and more face the music and it makes the news, others will think twice about tempting fate and giving it a go.

As it is, a number of them without the celebrity "names" HAVE been disciplined in several states but you have to dig for it (e.g., this)

Only reason why Ghouliani is an un-dead walking zombie is because of his past positions as a US Attorney for SDNY and mayor, but he is effectively neutered pending a disbarment.

But after him, Jenna Ellis will be next along with Cleta Mitchell and others.

[Major Nikon]

46. It still doesn't give me much faith in the legal system

The idea shysters like this get as far as they have is a tragedy even before they go to work for Trump. Sidney Powell has yet to be disbarred and may still not. It seems the biggest case they have on her is claiming other lawyers were on her cases without their permission. Wisconsin declined to even sanction her, and GQP cretins are still sending her money and will probably send even more if and when she gets disbarred. Evidently there’s money to be made in this sort of bullshittery

[BumRushDaShow]

47. The whole disbarment bit

is a long and drawn out process (usually for a reason - due process).

You'll note of all the crap that Ghouliani was involved in, there was one particular set of legal cases he was associated with - those here in PA - that were used as a jumping off point to charge him for malfeasance egregious enough to need discipline, with the remedy being disbarment.

He was pretty much the legal ringleader (along with Eastman) and the others were "litigation support". I remember something like 61+ cases that were filed (including appeals) - both at the federal and state courts - that were related to overturning the election.

This article had some of the stats of the cases (and where they were filed) - https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/elections/2021/01/06/trumps-failed-efforts-overturn-election-numbers/4130307001/

[machoneman]

32. Yes, sanctions against all involved lawyers. This should have been in the judge's order.

[brer cat]

8. Good. Keep it up!

[usonian]

9. Is he tired of winning yet?

Or will his crimes ketch up with him?

[NJCher]

12. lol

ketch up

[BOSSHOG]

14. Maybe Putin can find him a safe house in Ukraine

[Karma13612]

30. Ohhhhhh, I saw what you did there!!!

[Warpy]

15. YES! Finally!

This should have happened a LONG time ago, TFG has been filing frivolous lawsuits for years, weaponizing the courts against anyone he has a real or imaginary grudge against. It's high time a judge imposed consequences for his shitty behavior.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. This is GREAT !!!!!!!

[myohmy2]

20. trump...

...is a brown streak on the shorts of American history...

...he should contribute to our laundry...

...and give Hillary a break...

[cstanleytech]

26. And yet I bet that Trump probably profited over it still via an increase in

donations so its probably a small drop in the bucket.

[msfiddlestix]

35. yeppers, going right out the gate in early 2021

I even received text msgs on my CELL phone from his fundraising campaigns after he lost the election.

I've had my number for about 10 or so years, I never understood why they thought MY number would be helpful to them.

[Karma13612]

29. And he will appeal

Appeal appeal.

[MissMillie]

33. RWNJs (right-wing nut jobs) are wondering when TFG's losing streak (in the courts) will end... lol

I'm thinking his losing streak will end when they (the RWNJs) stop funding his ridiculous and frivolous law suits.

[msfiddlestix]

34. what the hell was he suing Clinton over? defamation?

FFS!

[iemanja]

39. Conspiring against him to rig the 2016 election

against him by, he claimed, spinning the Russia conspiracy.

[msfiddlestix]

44. omfg. I remembet seeing posts suggesting he intended to, but actually getting this far with it

is beyond description as a raging-deranged-lunatic.

are there better descriptors?

incredible.

[iemanja]

45. It's in the linked article

[JohnnyRingo]

36. Yes. Start fining Trump's lawyers.

Maybe they'll be less apt to take up suits against everyone from Chuck Shumer to Rosie O'Donnell.
"I'll sue" is a regular tactic when Trump get humiliated by his own actions.

Maybe better to make sure lawyers were unwilling to sue everyone Trump doesn't like.

[iemanja]

38. If he pays

which I'm sure he will avoid at all costs.

[tonekat]

40. Reading of this

Brings a ray of sunshine to a cloudy day. He's going down!

[twodogsbarking]

41. He isn't in prison.

He should be in prison.

[Escurumbele]

42. How about disciplining the lawyers? There should be a some disciplinary actions against them.

Maybe suspend their licenses for a year? At least.