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Hillary Clinton Gets the Last Laugh Over a Humiliated Donald Trump and People are LOVING IT

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Okay, this isn’t Donald Trump locked up in a federal penitentiary with three hots and a cot (let’s hope that’s coming), but it’s still nice to see a little bit of justice come Trump’s way. Trump, who has lived all his 76 years believing he can do whatever the hell he wants was finally told by a judge that no, he can’t. And this bit of justice has to do with Trump paying Hillary Clinton, and frankly, we are just loving it.

Trump and his attorney, Alina Habba, (the hot Melania-looking one) have been ordered to pay Hillary Clinton $171,631 in legal fees for pursuing a bogus lawsuit against her and others.

In a filing on Thursday, Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks ordered the pair to pay Clinton and ten other groups a total of nearly $1 million in legal fees over a “completely frivolous” lawsuit against Clinton and a long list of Trump’s political foes.

The lawsuit alleged there was a conspiracy to spread lies and damaging information about Trump in 2016 in an effort to aid Clinton in the presidential race. The lawsuit was an absolute joke, but obviously Trump’s attorneys are unable to tell him no, or perhaps they figure they’ll make money billing him, who knows.

In Thursday’s filing, Middlebrooks slammed Trump and Habba over the case.

“This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start,” Middlebrooks wrote. “No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim.”

OUCH.

Middlebrooks continued, noting that 31 parties were “needlessly harmed in order to dishonestly advance a political narrative,” adding that this was just a continuance of a “pattern of misuse of the courts” by Trump and his attorney.

DOUBLE OUCH.

The judge previously dismissed the case “in its entirety” in September 2022, agreeing with the defendants that it lacked merit and was simply a “two-hundred-page political manifesto.” 

Hours after Middlebrooks’ filing became public, knowing that filing frivolous lawsuits isn’t the best idea, Trump withdrew a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James that also happened to be before Middlebrooks. The judge had referenced the suit against James in his order on Thursday, noting it had “all the telltale signs of being both vexatious and frivolous.”

As suffice to say, people were thrilled:

Nicole Hickman
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Nicole Hickman James is a lifelong Democrat and political activist who first cut her teeth as a teenager volunteering for Mike Dukakis’ presidential campaign. She has worked and volunteered for John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, HFA (Hillary For America), and Organizing For Action. She’s passionate about liberal and progressive causes and considers President Obama her favorite president ever. She holds her Bachelor’s from Boston College in Economics and her Master's from Columbia, also in Economics. When not working as a writer, she enjoys traveling and spending time with her three college-aged children.

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