Since the president filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in March, Clinton has been overtly dismissive of the premise of the suit while her legal team has seemingly spent more time refuting Trump’s standing to file suit so long after the alleged crime of spreading the “false narrative” that he had colluded with Russia.
In April, Clinton’s attorneys had challenged that the former president’s claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act had passed the statute of limitations, usually four years, and for that reason, the suit should be dropped. On Thursday, according to Insider, they backed up that claim using a tweet from 2017 as justification.
In the motion to dismiss, the former secretary of state’s lawyers wrote that Trump “took to Twitter in 2017 to accuse Clinton, the Democrats, the intelligence community, and others” of conspiring to connect his campaign to Russia.
“Because Plaintiff’s tweets are judicially noticeable and prove his claims are untimely, the Court should dismiss on statue-of-limitations grounds,” they argued to rebut the Trump teams response to the initial motion to dismiss.
As previously reported, the $24 million lawsuit called out members of Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign team including John Podesta, Robbie Mook and current national security advisor Jake Sullivan of orchestrating an “unthinkable plot” that drove years of a Russian collusion narrative.
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In April, Clinton’s attorneys had challenged that the former president’s claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act had passed the statute of limitations, usually four years, and for that reason, the suit should be dropped. On Thursday, according to Insider, they backed up that claim using a tweet from 2017 as justification.
In the motion to dismiss, the former secretary of state’s lawyers wrote that Trump “took to Twitter in 2017 to accuse Clinton, the Democrats, the intelligence community, and others” of conspiring to connect his campaign to Russia.
“Because Plaintiff’s tweets are judicially noticeable and prove his claims are untimely, the Court should dismiss on statue-of-limitations grounds,” they argued to rebut the Trump teams response to the initial motion to dismiss.
As previously reported, the $24 million lawsuit called out members of Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign team including John Podesta, Robbie Mook and current national security advisor Jake Sullivan of orchestrating an “unthinkable plot” that drove years of a Russian collusion narrative.
Hillary Clinton tries to turn Trump's tweets against him in RICO lawsuit
Hillary Clinton's legal team attempted to use former President Donald Trump's tweets to dismiss his RICO lawsuit.