“The defendants conspired maliciously to fight the false story that their Republican adversary, Donald J. Trump, had allied himself with a hostile foreign power,” the former president said in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida.
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Trump, who defeated Democratic candidate Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, said in a lawsuit that there was, among other things, “blackmail” and “conspiracy to commit harmful lies,” Reuters reports.
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The ex-president’s claim is challenged by a 966-page report issued by a Republican-led U.S. Senate committee in August 2020. The report concluded that Russia had used then-Trump’s election chief Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to help Trump win the 2016 election.
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The alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election in 2016, which Moscow denies, has been the subject of a special investigation by Robert Mueller for two years. In his final report of 2019, he concluded that Russia was trying to intervene in the elections in order to obtain the election of Trump as president.
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Trump seeks compensation in the lawsuit. He claims that he was “forced to incur costs, which will be determined in court proceedings, but which is known to exceed $ 24 million and continues to rise in terms of defense costs, legal fees and related expenses.”
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