Former Secretary of State and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton asked a U.S. court on Oct. 31 to impose more than $1 million in sanctions on former President Donald Trump for a lawsuit that the same court dismissed in September.
“Plaintiff’s suit was unwarranted on the facts, unsupported by the law, and imposed substantial burdens both on Defendants and this Court,” Clinton and others who were sued, including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), said in the motion for sanctions.
“Despite being alerted to the many deficiencies in the initial Complaint by one round of motions to dismiss, Plaintiff and his counsel pressed forward on an Amended Complaint that fixed none of the problems, and instead simply added more invective and irrelevant factual allegations to what was already a ‘shotgun’ pleading. The Court should not countenance the abuse of its resources—or allow significant burdens to be imposed on Defendants, many of them individuals who have devoted their careers to public service—in service of Plaintiff’s political stunt,” they added….