Trump drops lawsuit against New York AG after judge in case sanctions him almost $1 million for Clinton suit - CNBC

Former President Donald Trump connected Friday greeting voluntarily dropped a longshot federal lawsuit successful Florida against New York's lawyer wide — a time aft the aforesaid justice successful the lawsuit sanctioned him and his lawyer astir $1 million for filing another, "frivolous" suit against Hillary Clinton and galore different defendants.

The judge, John Middlebrooks, had pointedly noted successful a scathing authorisation bid Thursday evening successful the Clinton case that helium was besides handling Trump's ailment against Attorney General Letitia James successful U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Trump's suit against James — which Middlebrooks past period warned appeared "vexatious and frivolous" — was filed successful absorption to her ain civil lawsuit against Trump successful New York authorities tribunal alleging fraud astatine his company.

James' spokeswoman, Delaney Kempner, noted that Trump's dismissal of his suit came connected the aforesaid time that his "reply to our question to disregard this lawsuit was due."

In the Clinton case, Middlebrooks ordered Trump, who is seeking the 2024 GOP statesmanlike nomination, and his lawyer Alina Habba to wage Clinton and different defendants astir $938,0000 for filing the suit, which the justice antecedently dismissed.

Trump's suit accused Clinton and the others, including the Democratic National Committee and assorted FBI officials, of conspiring to make a mendacious communicative during the 2016 statesmanlike predetermination that his run was colluding with Russia.

"We are confronted with a suit that should ne'er person been filed, which was wholly frivolous, some factually and legally, and which was brought successful atrocious religion for an improper purpose," Middlebrooks wrote successful his bid dunning Trump and Habba with monetary sanctions.

Middlebrooks' bid cited however Trump has responded successful tribunal successful New York to James' years-long civilian probe of his company, the Trump Organization, arsenic 1 of the aggregate examples of "a signifier of maltreatment of the courts" by the Republican erstwhile president.

"Mr. Trump is simply a prolific and blase litigant who is repeatedly utilizing the courts to question revenge connected governmental adversaries," the justice wrote.

"He is the mastermind of strategical maltreatment of the judicial process, and helium cannot beryllium seen arsenic a litigant blindly pursuing the proposal of a lawyer."

James successful September filed suit successful Manhattan Supreme Court against Trump, his company, 3 of his big children, and others, alleging wide fraud involving mendacious fiscal statements related to the company's business.

In November, Trump sued James successful Florida authorities court, alleging she was engaged successful a "war of intimidation and harassment" against him. That suit sought to artifact James from getting records from a revocable spot helium acceptable up successful Florida that has ownership of the Trump Organization.

James soon thereafter removed that suit to national tribunal successful Florida, wherever Middelbrooks was assigned the case.

Middlebrooks successful his bid successful the Clinton lawsuit Thursday noted that past period helium had ruled that Trump's "attempt to sidestep rulings by the New York tribunal by suing AG James individually alternatively than successful her authoritative capableness was plainly frivolous."

The justice besides had recovered that Trump had 'no likelihood of occurrence connected the merits" of the case," and that helium had urged Trump to see dropping his absorption to James's bid to get the case.

"This litigation [against James] has each the telltale signs of being some vexatious and frivolous," Middlebrooks had written past month.

But the justice aboriginal wrote, "a determination successful Mr. Trump's Florida suit against the New York Attorney General, a lawsuit present pending earlier me, is premature."

A lawyer for Trump did not instantly respond to a question astir wherefore the suit against James was voluntarily dismissed.