Hillary Clinton’s attorneys said Trump’s $24 million lawsuits that claim an “unthinkable plot” to smear him and convince voters Russia was involved in his campaign had no legal basis.
that accuses her and the Democratic National Committee of conspiring against him to smear his 2016 campaign.
In a 108-page complaint filed last month, Trump claimed Clinton and others orchestrated a plan to manufacture the Russia scandal to ruin his candidacy in 2016, when he was running as a Republican candidate against Clinton. They pointed to a series of tweets by Trump in October 2017 when he blamed Clinton for the infamous Steele Dossier and complained about a lack of investigation, writing “DO SOMETHING.”
Other aspects of Trump’s lengthy complaint was protected “public speech with which he disagrees,” the attorneys said. Trump had accused the Clinton campaign of theft of trade secrets, but Clinton’s attorneys argued information the DNS gathered from Trump Organization computers qualified as a “trade secret.”
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