Judge dismisses DNC hacking lawsuit against Trump team, says claims 'entirely divorced from the fact

[Right_in_Virginia]

Judge dismisses DNC hacking lawsuit against Trump team, says claims 'entirely divorced from the facts'
Fox News, Jul 30, 2019, Gregg Re

A federal judge in frank terms Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) against key members of the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks over hacked DNC documents, saying they "did not participate in any wrongdoing in obtaining the materials in the first place" and therefore bore no legal liability for disseminating the information.

The ruling came as Democrats increasingly have sought to tie the Trump team to illegal activity in Russia, in spite of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's findings that the campaign in fact refused multiple offers by Russians to involve them in hacking and disinformation efforts.

The DNC asserted in court filings that the Trump team's meetings "with persons connected to the Russian government during the time that the Russian GRU agents were stealing the DNC's information" were "circumstantial evidence" that they were conspiring with the Russians to "steal and disseminate the DNC's materials."

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However, Judge John Koeltl, a Bill Clinton appointee sitting in the Southern District of New York, wrote in his 81-page opinion Tuesday that the DNC's argument was "entirely divorced" from the facts.


More:  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-lawsuit-trump-campaign-russia-wikileaks-hacking-dismissed

[libertybele]

Good.  Time to move on.

[Sanguine]

"...the DNC's argument was "entirely divorced" from the facts..."

That can apply to so many things.

[mystery-ak]

Federal judge to DNC: Your Russia-collusion lawsuit over 2016 hack “entirely divorced from the facts”

Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:01 am on July 31, 2019

Conspiracy theories may get a lot of traction on social media, but they don’t fare nearly as well in federal court. The Democratic National Committee learned that the hard way yesterday after having their lawsuit against Donald Trump’s campaign over Russian collusion dismissed for being “entirely divorced from the facts.” Not only did the DNC not provide any evidence of collusion, the sharing of DNC e-mails after their publication is covered by the First Amendment, Judge John Koetl ruled:



    A federal judge in New York on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee against the Russian government, President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Wikileaks that alleged a vast, international conspiracy to tip the scales of the 2016 presidential election.

    In an 81-page opinion, Judge John Koeltl wrote that the Russian government was the “primary wrongdoer” in the alleged plot to hack into the DNC’s systems and steal a trove of emails and documents. …

    On Tuesday, Judge Koeltl ruled against the DNC, emphasizing that they did not allege that anyone other than the Russian government participated in the hacking of their systems, and failed to “raise a factual allegation that suggests that any of the defendants were even aware that the Russian Federation was planning to hack the DNC’s computers until after it had already done so.”

    “The DNC argues that the various meetings and conversations between the defendants in this case and with persons connected to the Russian government during the time that Russian GRU agents were stealing the DNC’s information show that the defendants conspired with the Russian Federation to steal and disseminate the DNC’s materials,” Koeltl wrote. “That argument is entirely divorced from the facts actually alleged in the Second Amended complaint.”

more
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/07/31/federal-judge-dnc-russia-collusion-lawsuit-2016-hack-entirely-divorced-facts/

[PeteS in CA]

The Dems' evidence in support of their case was slightly stringer than the evidence by which they could have sued me. Their evidence was that some Trump people had met some Russians who had some sort of relationship with the Russian government. I've met, many times, the sister of several Russian soldiers. This was my Grandmother, and her brothers served in a regiment that guarded the Czar. They ceased communicating in the 1920s, and my Grandmother died 4 decades later. So my ties to the Russian government are stronger, but were 5 decades ago.

My story is intentionally silly (though true), but that's how excruciatingly weak the Dems' case was.