Donald Trump, the winner of the 2016 US presidential election, has filed a lawsuit against several Democrats, including his rival Hillary Clinton, for allegedly trying to manipulate the election. He filed the case on Thursday, six years after the election. Trump alleges they tried to manipulate his election campaign with Russia. News Reuters
The list of Trump's allegations in the case is long. The Republican president has repeatedly made these allegations in his four years in office after losing to Hillary. Trump also accused Democrat President Joe Biden of losing the 2020 election as a result of massive fraud.
In a 107-page statement filed in federal court in Florida, he said, "Defendants conspired to spread a false story that Republican opponent Donald Jr. Trump was colluding with a foreign hostile country." Is brought.
A spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton declined to comment, but Reuters reported.
The petition seeks compensation as well as disciplinary action against the culprits. Trump said he was forced to bear the brunt of the financial loss, the amount of which would be determined in court. But that could be more than 24 million. Add to that the security costs and other related costs, including legal fees. '
Jeff Grail, a lawyer with experience in racketeering, said Trump may have been too late to file a racketeering complaint. Because, in case of this claim, a period of four years has been fixed. But there is usually a big debate here as to when these four years will begin.
Defendants could offer further arguments, including acquittal of a government agency and stifling freedom of expression, which was not excluded from the lawsuit, the lawyer said. These arguments are usually resolved after a long legal battle.
Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele is one of the defendants in Trump's case. A document written by him was leaked to the FBI and various media outlets before the November 2016 election. It claims that Russia has embarrassing information about Trump and some of his Republican propaganda advisers and that Moscow is working behind the scenes to defeat Hillary.
In 2020, the Republican-led Senate committee released a 96-page report. It concludes that Russian Republican politician Paul Menafort and the WikiLeaks website were used to help Trump win the 2016 election. Menafort spent five months campaigning for Trump's 2016 presidential election.
The United States has been conducting a two-year investigation into alleged Russian interference in the election, led by special envoy Robert Mueller. Mueller then published an overall report in 2019. It details the links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. However, no conspiracy charges have been filed against any of Trump's associates.
In the report, Mueller said Russia realized that they would benefit if Trump became president and worked to ensure that. And those involved in the Trump campaign thought that Russia's efforts would benefit electoral information from stolen and published information.
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