Former President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a $24 million federal lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee launched a wide-ranging “unthinkable plot” in 2016 to smear him and his campaign as colluding with Russian officials.

In the suit, filed in the Southern District of Florida, Trump claims the goal was to fabricate a scandal in an effort to “cripple” his bid for the presidency.

“In the run up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts orchestrated an unthinkable plot — one that shocks the conscience and is an affront to this nation’s democracy,” he says in the 108-page complaint.

“Acting in concert, the Defendants maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty.”

The 45th president alleges that the scheme concocted by Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, and others falsified evidence, deceived law enforcement and exploited “access to highly-sensitive data sources” — and was “so outrageous, subversive and incendiary that even the events of Watergate pale in comparison.”

Using the guise of opposition research and data analytics — an apparent nod to the highly controversial Christopher Steele dossier — Clinton and the Democrats sought to “sway the public’s trust,” according to the filing.

“They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald J. Trump. Indeed, their far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple Trump’s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media frenzy,” claims the suit, filed nearly six years after the election in which he defeated Clinton, claims.

The scheme was “conceived, coordinated and carried out by top-level officials at the Clinton Campaign and the DNC — including ‘the candidate’ herself — who attempted to shield her involvement behind a wall of third parties,” the suit says.

In a footnote, the legal papers identified the Justice Department, the Office of the Inspector General, the four FISA applications and “Crossfire Hurricane” — the code name given to the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into possible links between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.

Clinton and the other Democrats “blinded by political ambition” masterminded the plot to spread false information about then-candidate Trump, “all in the hopes of destroying his life, his political career and rigging the 2016 Presidential Election in favor of Hillary Clinton,” the suit alleges.

When the scheme failed and Trump was elected, the Democrats shifted their focus to eat away at the credibility of the Trump administration, the filings says.

“Worse still, the Defendants continue to spread their vicious lies to this day as they unabashedly publicize their thoroughly debunked falsehoods in an effort to ensure that he will never be elected again,” the former president says in the suit.

The complaint also alleges that the Democrats violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, among other offenses. Trump is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, claiming that he was “forced to incur expenses in an amount to be determined at trial, but known to be in excess of twenty-four million dollars ($24,000,000) and continuing to accrue, in the form of defense costs, legal fees, and related expenses.”

Along with Clinton and the DNC, the lawsuit names as defendants former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, the law firm Perkins Coie, the research firm Fusion GPS, former FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and Christopher Steele, the ex-British intelligence agent who authored dossier.

Trump has long accused Democrats and the Clinton campaign of conspiring to link him to alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election — the subject of unsuccessful impeachment proceedings against Trump when he was in office.

But a heavily redacted report issued in August 2020 by the Republican-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that Russia was behind a plot to subvert the integrity of the 2016 elections, an effort that “represents one of the single most grave counterintelligence threats to American national security in the modem era.”

“The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election,” the panel said in the 966-page report.

The report also said former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who had wide connections with pro-Russian officials in Ukraine, worked with the WikiLeaks website to help Trump win in 2016. The Senate committee’s findings, like the report issued by special counsel Robert Mueller in May 2019, did not conclude that Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government.

But Mueller’s investigation found that the Trump campaign was “receptive” to Russian help.

FWIW this builds also on the DNC having "fake primaries" in 2016 where Bernie could not be the nominee because the DNC itself had made a secret deal with Hillary Clinton.

WaPo link

The DNC claimed this was an investment and therefore not subject to these restrictions, but imo the DNC never revealed this information to 'investors' which is also illegal.

Washington Post link where both Warren and Brazile say it was rigged

Since it is demonstrably false that Trump is a russian asset, any news organization still showing that as 'news' could also be charged for collusion on this.

You know Rudy G knows this law better than anyone and imho if the courts aren't completely rigged (like we saw Gotti rig them or the Rodney King police rig them the first time, etc etc) people SHOULD go to jail.

Lock her up !!!

Lock them both up. People are going to be talking about Trump and Hillary for 20 years while the country moves on.

OakasFan hasnt been around forever but he just had to chime in with his liberal point of view. I hope Trump sues all the hairs off Hillary’s snatch.

They tried Trump, multiple times, and have lost in court every single time.

Do you have evidence the Mueller investigation wasn't aware of? If not, please stick to the subject, which is Hillary being charged, not Trump. There are plenty of those other threads on reddit or any number of other sites.

Oak said lock them both up, he didn't single out Trump.

Clinton's not going to jail, and neither is Trump. It's a big fucking charade for the benefit of John Q. Public. The Republicans AND the Democrats are completely full of shit! The average "Joe Jerkoff" out there debates who's has the moral high ground, the Republicans or the Democrats, but the harsh truth is both parties are taking us for a ride!...and spending billions upon billions of our tax dollars with these phony investigations against politicians in both parties that go absolutely no where!

There are decent politicians and fair-minded legit people in both parties, but unfortunately there's way to many phony politicians who talk out of both sides of their ass and are political hacks who are only out there for their own political gain and to line their own pockets. It's nothing new. It's been that way since the beginning of time. Doesn't matter what flag colors they fly, they're all full of shit at the end of the day!

Wake up fellas because its later than you think!

One of my patients was into career politics and he told me that all of the shit you see on television and hear about is like NYM said, a big Fucking charade. Have you ever experienced lawyers? In court they are ruthless towards one another. At the end of the day, they're asking each other who's getting the first drink. The politicians put on this big show. Like WWF, for the audience they draw us in, and at the end of the day they're only looking out for themselves.

The politicians make a big thing about helping the blacks. Unfortunately, the blacks don't understand, that only they can help themselves. But you have these politicians putting it in their heads that their problems are due to everyone else.

I drop in about once every couple of weeks. Check my comment history. You're not smart enough to grasp that both parties are the problem.

I'll let a mod decide whether or not I'm on topic. In the meantime, you're getting the attention you asked for.

Not historically accurate. This country has always helped white people when they were in economic distress. From the New Deal to the more recent Covid relief, and this isn't even getting into the wealth building by white families during the real estate redlining era, when banks could legally reject black loan applicants. Whites have always been given a leg up in this country.

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