So much spin, they can now identify as an apache helicopter.
The suit also contains some factual inaccuracies and some of the same grandiose or exaggerated false claims that Trump has made dozens of times.
The civil suit alleges that Clinton and top Democrats hired lawyers and researchers to fabricate information tying Trump to Russia, and then peddled those lies to the media and to the US government, in hopes of hobbling his chances of winning in 2016. Trump claims they were assisted by "Clinton loyalists" at the FBI, who abused their powers to investigate him out of political animus.
CNN has reached out to many of the defendants for comment. Some attorneys for defendants named in the lawsuit were still digesting it on Thursday.
"We haven't had a chance to read the complaint, but knowing the former President, there's probably very little in there that's true," said Aitan Goelman, who represents former FBI official Peter Strzok.
The Clinton campaign did pay researchers to dig up dirt about Trump and Russia, and well-connected Democrats took some of their findings to law enforcement, believing possible ties between Trump and Russia were worth investigating But many of the key elements of Trump's far-reaching accusations in the lawsuit have previously been debunked by the Justice Department inspector general and by a bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
I don't see how Trump expects to win in the same court system that would lend huge credence to the justice department inspector general and Senate intelligence committee reports. Both of those sources say the things Trump is accusing are not true. So how is Trump expecting to win?
So much spin, they can now identify as an apache helicopter.
The suit also contains some factual inaccuracies and some of the same grandiose or exaggerated false claims that Trump has made dozens of times.
The civil suit alleges that Clinton and top Democrats hired lawyers and researchers to fabricate information tying Trump to Russia, and then peddled those lies to the media and to the US government, in hopes of hobbling his chances of winning in 2016. Trump claims they were assisted by "Clinton loyalists" at the FBI, who abused their powers to investigate him out of political animus.
CNN has reached out to many of the defendants for comment. Some attorneys for defendants named in the lawsuit were still digesting it on Thursday.
"We haven't had a chance to read the complaint, but knowing the former President, there's probably very little in there that's true," said Aitan Goelman, who represents former FBI official Peter Strzok.
The Clinton campaign did pay researchers to dig up dirt about Trump and Russia, and well-connected Democrats took some of their findings to law enforcement, believing possible ties between Trump and Russia were worth investigating But many of the key elements of Trump's far-reaching accusations in the lawsuit have previously been debunked by the Justice Department inspector general and by a bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
I don't see how Trump expects to win in the same court system that would lend huge credence to the justice department inspector general and Senate intelligence committee reports. Both of those sources say the things Trump is accusing are not true. So how is Trump expecting to win?
Durham
There's a reason he waited to file as he could have done so immediately after the election or sooner.