Posted on 01/20/2023 7:50:45 AM PST by Coronal
Less than a day after receiving a warning from a federal judge, former President Donald Trump has withdrawn his $250 million lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The withdrawal came in a brief document filed Friday morning with U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, who late Thursday warned Trump's legal team that the lawsuit appeared to verge on frivolous.
"Plaintiff, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, by and through his undersigned counsel and pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(i), hereby voluntarily dismisses his claims in this action against Defendant, LETITIA JAMES, without prejudice," the letter said.
Trump's lawsuit had sought to shield Trump's revocable trust from James, who has an ongoing $250 million civil suit that alleged fraudulent conduct at the Trump Organization.
On Thursday, Middlebrooks ordered Trump and his attorney Alina Habba to pay fines of nearly $1 million after determining that Trump's 2022 lawsuit against Hillary Clinton was frivolous litigation meant only to "seek revenge."
Trump had sued Clinton in March 2022, for allegedly "acting in concert" with top FBI leadership to invent what became known as the Russia investigation into interference in the 2016 election. Trump had argued that the Russia probe was "prolonged and exacerbated by the presence of a faction of Clinton loyalists who were well-positioned within the Department of Justice." Middlebrooks dismissed the lawsuit this past September.
In his Thursday opinion, the judge also cautioned Trump's attorneys that they could face sanctions over their lawsuit.
In the opinion, Middlebrooks called Trump "a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries."
"He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions,"
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“Middlebrooks was nominated by president Bill Clinton on January 7, 1997...”
All I need to know
It’s really cool to know there is no resolution from harassment by the left. It won’t come at the ballot box and now the jury box is off limits.
But James’ revenge suit cause she hates DJT is just fine....smh
President Trump is so screwed. He stand no chance in any court of law.
I remember some 30 years ago my brother was getting screwed over by his ex-wife who was failing to allow my brother his proper visitation rights to see his child. So my brother went back to court to have his rights enforced.
So what happened? The lady judge did nothing about enforcing his visitation rights. But what she did do? She raised his child support payments.
Those damn Republican legislatures did nothing about Marc Elias and George Soros and Zuckerberg taking over our elections.
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