On Friday, Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba sent a letter to US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks. He offered to post a $1.03 million bond to appeal the pair’s $937,989 fine, to file a conspiracy lawsuit against Clinton and others, Bloomberg reported.
Middlebrooks last month blasted the lawsuit as completely without legal merit, and said it amounted to nothing more than a partisan political manifesto that wasted taxpayers’ money and time for legitimate court action.
He accused the former president of “a pattern of judicial abuse” for filing some of the lawsuits for political purposes, which Middlebrooks said “undermine the rule of law” and “amount to obstruction of justice.”
He added: “We will face a lawsuit that was never filed, that is frivolous, factually and legally, and brought in bad faith for an improper purpose.”
Middlebrooks considers Trump a “mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process,” who uses the courts “to exact revenge on his political enemies.”
Middlebrooks acted on behalf of 18 defendants who filed a joint motion accusing Trump of knowingly filing false claims by dishonestly advancing a political narrative.
As of Saturday, Middlebrooks had not issued a decision on Trump and Habba’s bond offer.