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Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and numerous top Democratic officials were sued by Donald Trump on Thursday for tarnishing his 2016 presidential bid by tying it to Russia.
This combination of pictures was created on Nov. 8, 2016 and shows Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Agence France-Presse via Getty Images.
Clinton and top Democrats are accused in Trump's civil suit of orchestrating an unthinkable plot to damage his campaign.
The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
The former FBI Director, the former DNC chairwoman, and John Podesta are some of the people named in the suit.
Trump wants a jury trial and says he has $24 million in damages.
Clinton could not be reached immediately.
The lawsuit said that the far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple Trump's bid for presidency by faking a scandal that would be used to ignite a media frenzy.
A 2020 report from a Republican-led Senate committee determined that Russia tried to influence the 2016 election by releasing hacked documents to damage the Democrats.
Trump's relationship with Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, is once again in the spotlight after he made comments about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He called the Russian leader very savvy after he recognized the independence of two Kremlin-supported rebel states in eastern Ukraine. Many of Trump's supporters have recently turned their attention to 2016 and Clinton in particular. The ex-president jumped on a February court filing from Justice Department special counsel John Durham, who is investigating the origins of an FBI probe that searched for connections between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia, to make a convoluted and apparently baseless claim that Clinton. Durham has not accused the Clinton campaign of any wrongdoing.
The two figures Trump claimed helped organize a Clinton campaign espionage operation were named as defendants in the suit.
This is genius, Trump praises Putin, and Biden blasts him.
Trump's latest claim is that Clinton was unfaithful on his campaign.
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