Trump Offers $1 Million Bond to Appeal Clinton Suit Sanctions

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: Bloomberg

Trump and one of his lawyers, Alina Habba, offered to post a $1.03 million bond to appeal a judge’s order sanctioning them $937,989 for filing a “frivolous” conspiracy suit against Hillary Clinton and others.

Trump and Habba made the offer Friday in a letter to US District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks in Florida, asking him to put his sanctions order on hold while they appealed. Middlebrooks last month ordered Trump and Habba to jointly pay fees and costs racked up by Clinton and others while defending claims that she led a vast conspiracy against the former president.

“Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start,” the judge said of the Trump’s suit in his sanctions order. “No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim.”

The unprecedented sanctions against a former president, who has announced he is running again in 2024, were issued on behalf of 18 defendants who submitted a joint motion accusing Trump of knowingly filing a suit with bogus and unbelievable claims to dishonestly advance a political narrative.

Trump and Habba said Friday their proposed bond represents 110% of the total sanctions and isn’t opposed by Clinton, according to the filing by Jared J. Roberts, who is handling the appeal.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-offers-1-million-bond-to-appeal-clinton-suit-sanctions/ar-AA175Lr2?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=cd064e5650b744e5aa3d658927032bdd

[Justice matters.]

1. Charge 'em double now.

[Rebl2]

22. My thought too

[Squaredeal]

2. Tump always puts off paying what he owes.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. Fat Donnie should be granted bail, but have to put the money up in cash.

In one-dollar bills, personally carried into the courthouse by the Orange Tangerine himself.

[Botany]

3. Trump his lawyer, Alina Habba (NY & NJ parking lot/parking garage lawyer) are going to lose double.

US District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, “Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start, No reasonable lawyer would have filed it."

"Trump and Habba said Friday their proposed bond represents 110% of the total sanctions and isn’t opposed by Clinton."

[onenote]

28. Nope.

Not a chance of that happening.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. Bond for large court costs apparently ok, agreed to by Clinton. Case closed on the Kraken!

[ZonkerHarris]

5. "isn't opposed by Clinton, according to the filing by Jared J. Roberts" Let's ask Hillary....

not taking these trumphumpers word for anything.

[rubbersole]

6. DU legal minds-

Can this bond money be used to pay Clinton if the appeal(s) fail?

[Bayard]

7. Its compulsive

He just has to keep digging these holes deeper.

[onetexan]

8. Should not be allowed

[onenote]

29. Appeals shouldn't be allowed? Really?

Or just appeals for people we don't like?

[onetexan]

31. Not in the C on's case

[SWBTATTReg]

10. NO. How can one allow him to appeal this so called "frivolous" lawsult. Any court responding to

his request would tend to give his suit an air of legitimacy. Don't allow him any escape, or any remedy, otherwise, it will make the original lawsuit seem allowable. When something is junk, you don't add to it. Just pile on the sanction fines more and more as tRUMP keeps harping on it.

[onenote]

15. Because as a matter of law and due process, people are allowed to appeal adverse rulings

If the appeal is without merit, it will lose

[machoneman]

11. O.K. note that the judge has not ruled yet. He could reject the offer outright. Let's wait and see.

[TheRickles]

12. The judge could reject this offer and add an additional penalty, calling this another frivolous move

[onenote]

16. Not likely.

[TheRickles]

18. I'm curious to know what leads you to say that. IANAL and I'm ready to learn. Thanks.

[onenote]

20. The district court has no jurisdiction to decide the merits

Or lack thereof of an appeal of one of its orders.

Consider the following: Clinton’s original motion for the district court to award sanctions is denied and Clinton appeals. The district court can’t rule that the appeal is frivolous any more than it can rule thst trumps appeal is frivolous.

[TheRickles]

21. Good point - got it. Thanks.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. For this thread

Link to tweet

[Mr.Bill]

14. So now they are pretty much

just paying of the judges right out in the open.

[onenote]

17. Huh?

[Mr.Bill]

19. Just my funny way of looking at it.

Like Trump is in legal trouble and his idea is "How can we fix this with money?"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. Donald Trump's lawyer appeals nearly $1 Million sanctions order against self and client

This appeal will be fun to watch. TFG should be designated as a vexatious litigant.

Link to tweet

https://lawandcrime.com/trump/donald-trumps-lawyer-appeals-nearly-1-million-sanctions-order-against-self-and-client/

One of former President Donald Trump’s top attorneys kicked off the process to appeal a nearly $1 million sanctions order against herself and the ex-president over a pattern of “frivolous” and “vexatious” litigation.

Middlebrooks levied the $937,989.39 penalty against both Trump and Alina Habba in connection with their lawsuit accusing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and dozens of others of a massive racketeering (RICO) scheme to smear him through associations with Russia.

“This lawsuit should have never been brought,” Middlebrooks wrote at the start of his Jan. 19, 2023, ruling.

The 46-page order cited Trump’s “continuing pattern of misuse of the courts,” in a playbook that Middlebrooks said, “undermines the rule of law, portrays judges as partisans, and diverts resources from those who have suffered actual legal harm.”

Sanctions typically punish attorneys who abuse the court system, but Middlebrooks found that Trump’s litigation tactics earned an exception.

“Mr. Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries,” Middlebrooks wrote. “He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions.”

[onetexan]

32. THIS!!☝️

[Lasher]

24. Locking LBN duplicate.

Please continue discussion in this earlier LBN thread.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Thank you

I have been following the Clinton RICO case from the time TFG's first petition, amended petition, the ruling striking down this lawsuit, the first sanctions ruling, the second sanctions ruling and now this appeal

[Lasher]

25. Unlocking

Sorry, I locked the wrong thread.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. Trump files a desperate and frivolous appeal

This appeal is really weak

Link to tweet

[onenote]

30. Despite what many posters are hoping, there is next to no chance of additional sanctions

being imposed for filing this appeal.

Keep in mind this is not an appeal of the dismissal of Trump's complaint. It is an appeal of the sanctions award. The fact one loses a case doesn't make sanctions inevitable. And when sanctions are awarded, there are a lot of moving parts -- read Middlebrooks' opinion. Challenging his conclusions is not per se frivolous. While appeals courts have the power to impose sanctions of appellate litigants, that power is used sparingly and almost never in cases where the appeal is of a sanctions order, even if the appeals court upholds the sanctions.

Frankly, given the make-up of the 11th circuit, if I was a betting man, I'd place odds on Trump winning his appeal, at least in part