Trump offers $1 million bail to appeal sanctions against Hillary Clinton involving 2016 presidential campaign

Former President Donald Trump has offered $1.03 million bail to appeal a judge's order to pay more than $937,000 in penalties for suing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Trump and his attorney Alina Habba made the offer in a letter to U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks in Florida, Bloomberg reports.

The former president has asked the judge to suspend his penalty order while they appeal.

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

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Earlier in January, Middlebrooks said the sanctions were justified because Trump had shown a pattern of abusing the courts to advance his political agenda.

"Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the outset," the judge said of Trump's lawsuit in his sanctions order. "No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for political purposes, none of the charges in the amended complaint set out a known legal claim," Bloomberg quoted him as saying.

Trump had sued Clinton over claims made against his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump said Clinton and other Democrats sought to influence that election by falsely accusing his campaign of ties to Russia, reports Reuters.

Last September, Middlebrooks dismissed the case, calling the lawsuit "a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his [Trump's] grievances against those who opposed him."< /p>

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