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Former President Donald Trump wants the judge assigned to his lawsuit against Hillary Clinton to be removed from hearing the case.
His reason for wanting to disqualify U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks is that the judge was first nominated by former President Bill Clinton in 1997, when Hillary was first lady, The Washington Examiner reported.
The attorneys for the former president argued in a filing that “there exists a reasonable basis that Judge Middlebrooks’ impartiality will be questioned.”
In addition, the motion cites Section 455 of the U.S. Code, which states, “Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
Trump’s filing does not make any mention of Middlebrooks’s decision in 2016 to toss a civil racketeering lawsuit against Clinton which alleged that the former secretary of state used her private email account and changed U.S. foreign policy to seek speaking fees and donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Trump filed his lawsuit late last month, alleging a conspiracy to create a “false narrative” tying his 2016 campaign to Russia.
The 45th President of the United States held a “Save America” rally in Commerce, Georgia last month where he decried the judge he got in the case.
“We filed this great case, we’ve got a judge that was appointed by Bill and Hillary Clinton. How do you think that’s going to go? This s**t can only happen to me,” he said of the lawsuit.
Trump on suing Hillary: "We filed this great case, we've got a judge that was appointed by Bill and Hillary Clinton. How do you think that's going to go? This s**t can only happen to me."
MORE: https://t.co/Z02PIBLNcH pic.twitter.com/2h8mxg0EuR
— Newsmax (@newsmax) March 27, 2022
He also dropped an F bomb when talking about climate czar John Kerry, the former secretary of state.
“Yet you have people like John Kerry worrying about the climate… ‘The ocean will rise one-hundredth of one percent over the next 300 f***ing years!” he said.
"Yet you have people like John Kerry worrying about the climate… 'The ocean will rise one-hundredth of one percent over the next 300 fuckin' years!"
SAVAGE 😂🔥 pic.twitter.com/uafS9w2emd
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) March 27, 2022
The former president also took aim at transgender women competing in women’s sports and said it was unfair.
"It's so unfair to women… If she can't even say what a woman is, how on Earth can she be trusted to say what the Constitution is?" pic.twitter.com/AWWI1qjzhe
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) March 27, 2022
And he spoke about how NBC anchor Chuck Todd of “Meet The Press” mentioned that Russian President Vladimir Putin never invaded Ukraine when Trump was president.
“Even “Sleepy son of a b****” Chuck Todd of “Meet The Fake Press” acknowledged that Russia did not invade another nation while Trump was in the White House,” he said.
TRUMP: Even "Sleepy son of a b****" Chuck Todd of "Meet The Fake Press" acknowledged that Russia did not invade another nation while Trump was in the White House. #TrumpRally pic.twitter.com/mOD2p8TZfz
— Newsmax (@newsmax) March 27, 2022
And he shredded President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“The left has become so extreme that we now have a justice being nominated to the Supreme Court who testified under oath that she could not say what a woman is,” he said.
“If she can’t even say what a woman is. How on earth can she be trusted to say what the Constitution is?” the former president said.
“A party that’s unwilling to admit that men and women are biologically different, in defiance of all scientific and human history, is a party that should not be anywhere near the levers of power,” he said.
"If Judge Jackson can't even say what a woman is, how on earth could she be trusted to say what the Constitution is!" -President Trump
STOP Her Confirmation–> https://t.co/ioSml4zmfQ pic.twitter.com/ocXTFxKybD
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) March 27, 2022
Trump filed a lawsuit against Clinton and others involved in the 2016 presidential election.
He is suing them, claiming that they attempted to rig the 2016 presidential election by tying his campaign to Russia, Reuters reported.
“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 45th President of the United States alleged in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida.
It just adds to the tough news that Clinton has had recently related to the 2016 presidential election.
The Department of Justice is set to produce a “large volume” of classified materials and documents this week pertaining to the ‘Russiagate’ case involving the main source for former British spy Christopher Steele’s dossier that attempted to sabotage then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s candidacy and subsequent presidency.
That’s according to special counsel John Durham, who made the revelation in a Tuesday filing in which he also asked a federal judge to extend a deadline for the production of classified discovery, in compliance with the Classified Information Procedures Act, a statute outlining the manner in which classified documents must be protected in criminal cases.
