Trump Files to Disqualify Judge in ‘Russiagate’ Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton

President Trump looking to remove judge assigned to his lawsuit against Hillary.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Donald Trump is arguing that U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks should be disqualified from hearing the case because the judge has been nominated by former President Bill Clinton in 1997 when his wife, Hillary Clinton, was first lady, The Conservative Brief reports.
  • Trump’s attorneys argued in a filing that “there exists a reasonable basis that Judge Middlebrooks’ impartiality will be questioned.”
  • Trump filed a lawsuit against Clinton and others involved in the 2016 presidential election, claiming they attempted to rig the presidential election that year by tying his campaign to Russia, as reported by Reuters.
  • “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,” Trump alleged in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida.
WHAT THE FILING SAID:

In addition, the motion cites Section 455 of the U.S. Code, which states, “Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”

Trump’s filing does not make any mention of Middlebrooks’s decision in 2016 to toss a civil racketeering lawsuit against Clinton which alleged that the former secretary of state used her private email account and changed U.S. foreign policy to seek speaking fees and donations to the Clinton Foundation.

Trump filed his lawsuit late last month, alleging a conspiracy to create a “false narrative” tying his 2016 campaign to Russia.

BACKGROUND:
  • The Conservative Brief also noted how Trump had recently held a “Save America” rally in Commerce, Georgia last month where he decried the judge he got in the case.
  • “We filed this great case, we’ve got a judge that was appointed by Bill and Hillary Clinton. How do you think that’s going to go? This [explitive] can only happen to me,” he said of the lawsuit.

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