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Donald Trump[/B] has filed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and other Democratic Party officials, alleging that they attempted to rig the 2016 presidential election by linking his campaign to Russia.
"Acting in concert, the defendants maliciously conspired to promulgate a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was working with a hostile foreign power," the former president said in the lawsuit filed in a Florida federal court. Trump, who beat Clinton in the 2016 election, alleges "extortion" and "conspiracy to spread harmful lies."
The investigation into Kremlin interference in the election
Trump's claims, however, are undermined by a 966-page report released in August 2020 by a Republican-controlled Senate committee. That report concluded that Russia used executive Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to help Trump win the 2016 election. Manafort was a member of Trump's campaign staff for five months in 2016.
The allegations of "Russian interference" in the election, which Moscow denied, prompted a two-year investigation led by special prosecutor Robert Mueller.
In his lawsuit, Trump is seeking retaliatory and punitive damages. He argues that he was "required to incur costs (such as attorney fees and others), the amount of which will be determined at trial, but are known to exceed $24 million and continue to increase."
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