Hillary Clinton tries to turn Trump’s tweets against him in RICO lawsuit
August 13, 2022 | Kevin Haggerty Hillary Clinton’s legal team appeared to be scrambling to find any technical grounds for the court to dismiss former President Donald Trump’s RICO lawsuit against her and her colleagues for allegedly conspiring against him and his 2016 presidential bid, and on Thursday that meant falling back on tweets.
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.
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