A federal judge has imposed over $900,000 in sanctions on former President Donald Trump and his legal team for what the judge deemed a “continuing pattern of misuse of the courts” in Trump’s since-dismissed lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and dozens of others.
U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks—an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s husband—imposed the sanctions on Thursday for what he called a “frivolous” lawsuit.
“This case should never have been brought,” the judge wrote in a 46-page order (pdf) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, referring to the civil enforcement lawsuit that Trump filed in March 2022. Middlebrooks himself had dismissed the lawsuit back in September 2022….