US judge fines Donald Trump nearly $1m for Clinton lawsuit
Donald Trump has withdrawn a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge accused him of using the courts to seek revenge.An ongoing $250m lawsuit launched by Ms James accuses Mr Trump's family company - the Trump Organization - of committing fraud over a decade.Mr Trump's lawsuit was withdrawn on Friday, less than a day after he was rebuked by US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks who said it bordered on "frivolous".
He ordered Mr Trump to pay nearly $1m for another lawsuit filed against Hillary Clinton, which accused her and others of conspiring to "weave a false narrative" during the 2016 election that his campaign was colluding with Russia. In the ruling, Judge Middlebrooks called Mr Trump a "mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process" and said the lawsuit showed "inadequacy as a legal claim" and was intended for a "political purpose".The judge ordered Mr Trump and his lawyer, Alina Habba, and her firm, Habba Madaio & Associates, to jointly pay $937,989.39 in fines.
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