Donald Trump is offering to post a $1 million bond as part of his bid to appeal sanctions imposed last month on him and one of his lawyers for filing a “frivolous” conspiracy lawsuit against his old rival Hillary Clinton and others.
Trump and attorney Alina Habba sent a letter to U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks on Friday. They offered to post a $1.03 million bond to appeal the order that fined the couple $937,989 for filing a conspiracy lawsuit against Clinton and others, Bloomberg reported.
Middlebrooks last month declared the lawsuit completely without legal merit and said it was nothing more than a partisan political manifesto that wasted taxpayers’ time and money in legitimate lawsuits.
He accused the former president of a “pattern of abuse of court” to bring a series of such lawsuits for political purposes, which Middlebrooks said “undermines the rule of law” and “tantamounts to obstruction of justice”.
He added: “We are dealing with a lawsuit that should never have been brought, that was completely frivolous, both in fact and in law, and that was brought in bad faith – with a improper purpose”.
Middlebrooks called Trump “the epitome of strategic abuse of the judicial process” who uses the courts “to exact revenge on political opponents.”
Middlebrooks imposed the fines on behalf of 18 defendants who filed a joint motion accusing Trump of knowingly filing a lawsuit under false pretenses to dishonestly advance a political narrative.
As of Saturday, Middlebrooks had not issued a decision on the bond offering being touted by Trump and Habba.
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