Former U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, among others, claiming that they tried to rig the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday, also claims they falsely accused Trump of colluding with Russia. Trump defeated Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
“Acting in concert, the Defendants maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty,” the former president alleged in the lawsuit filed in a federal court in Florida.
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Trump’s allegations in the lawsuit are undermined by a 966-page report issued by a Republican-led U.S. Senate committee in August 2020. That report concluded that Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to try to help Trump win the 2016 election.
None of Trump’s allegations in the lawsuit have been proven in court.
— With files from Reuters
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