President Donald Trump is refusing to let the Deep State get away with the biggest political crime in American history!
President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his dismissed lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, accusing her, along with disgraced former FBI Director James Comey and numerous Democratic operatives, of conspiring to undermine his 2016 presidential campaign by falsely linking him to Russia.
Trump filed the petition on Friday, after Justice Clarence Thomas granted an extension of the deadline.
The move comes after a federal judge threw out the case and imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions against Trump and one of his lawyers for bringing what the courts labeled a “frivolous” suit. A U.S. appeals court subsequently upheld both the dismissal and the sanctions.
As The Gateway Pundit reported when the landmark RICO action was first filed in March 2022 in federal court in Miami, Trump named Clinton, Comey, the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, and a host of other co-conspirators in a sprawling racketeering scheme.
The complaint detailed how the Clinton campaign and its allies funded the Steele dossier, riddled with lies and uncorroborated claims, to smear Trump, abused FISA warrants to spy on his campaign, and launched the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that dogged his first term.
Trump sought treble damages exceeding $24 million for the legal fees, business losses, and political damage caused by the hoax.
Clinton-appointed U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the case in September 2022, calling the lengthy complaint a “two-hundred-page political manifesto.” Middlebrooks declined to recuse himself.
He later imposed sanctions totaling roughly $938,000 on Trump and his then-attorney Alina Habba, accusing them of abusive litigation tactics, knowingly false allegations, and filing in bad faith to advance a political narrative rather than a legitimate claim.
In November 2025, the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the dismissal and sanctions.
Chief Judge William Pryor, writing for a panel that included Trump appointee Andrew Brasher, declared that “many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous.”
The court rejected Trump’s argument that the statute of limitations should have been tolled because he postponed the lawsuit while serving as President to focus on his constitutional duties.
As The Gateway Pundit reported in May 2026, the full 11th Circuit then denied rehearing en banc, leaving the sanctions in place.
In the petition now before the high court, Trump’s lawyers argue that Supreme Court review is needed “to protect the presidency” and to stop “a deeply troubling trend of federal courts using sanctions and disciplinary threats to punish the president and his lawyers for legitimate legal positions that those courts (erroneously) reject.”
They contend the time limit for filing should have been extended because Trump deliberately waited until after his first term, concluding that any private civil lawsuit would consume substantial time and energy while he carried out his responsibilities as chief executive, the Washington Examiner reported.
The Russia collusion narrative has long been exposed as a fabrication. Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of conspiracy or collusion.
Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation documented the FBI’s reliance on the uncorroborated, Clinton-funded Steele dossier and the failure to investigate intelligence indicating the Clinton campaign planned to tie Trump to Russia as a distraction from her private email server scandal.
Declassified documents and Inspector General reports have repeatedly confirmed the political origins of the hoax and the abuses that followed.
Lower courts have protected the Clinton machine and the Deep State operatives who orchestrated the greatest political hoax in American history while punishing the victim of their scheme with nearly $1 million in sanctions.
The Supreme Court now has the opportunity to reverse this lawfare and allow the full truth about the 2016 election interference plot to be litigated.
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