President Donald Trump on Friday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a lawsuit he filed in 2022, accusing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of conspiring with the FBI and other power players to smear his first presidential campaign.
Trump has alleged that in order to sabotage his 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton coordinated with then-FBI Director James Comey and the Democratic National Committee to fabricate claims that Trump’s team worked with Russia to rig the election in his favor. In a ruling backed up last year by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal judge in Florida in 2022 tossed Trump’s lawsuit on the Russia “hoax,” ordering the president’s team to pay nearly $1 million in sanctions.
The president sought to reopen the case this week, pushing back against the lower courts’ dismissal of the lawsuit on the grounds that some of the claims were filed too late. In his latest appeal, Trump’s team said he deliberately waited until he finished his first term in the White House to file the case against Clinton and others, sparking the question of whether a president’s responsibilities warrant holding off on certain legal deadlines while he is in office.
“Faced with this conspiracy during his term, President Trump concluded that any private civil lawsuit would consume substantial time and energy and that any civil suit should therefore be postponed until after his term,” the lawsuit reads, according to CNN.
“This court’s intervention is necessary to protect the presidency, and to prevent judicial disagreement from becoming a license to punish its advocates,” the filing stated.
Clinton has long faced scrutiny for Comey’s Russia collusion case against Trump.
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A government watchdog filed an ethics complaint in 2025 against her for promoting the Steele dossier during the 2016 campaign, which is widely viewed as a largely discredited report that fueled the government’s Russia-Trump “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation. In 2022, the Federal Election Commission fined Clinton’s campaign team and the Democratic National Committee after complaints that it financed research into the Steele dossier, while misrepresenting the funding as legal services to obscure the spending.
The Clinton campaign denied claims it misrepresented how it financially backed the Steele dossier, although it and the DNC agreed to settle the case by paying $113,000 to the FEC.
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[ H/T Washington Examiner ]
