Trump fined nearly $1 million for "frivolous" revenge lawsuit

Trump to pay $1 million for Clinton lawsuit; Peru protesters enter the capital city.

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Why Trump and his lawyers got fined nearly $1 million

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• Donald Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba were fined nearly $1 million Thursday for filing what a judge called a “frivolous” lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and others. [Politico / Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein]
• Trump sued Clinton and dozens of others for accusing him of colluding with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. [Washington Post / Adela Suliman]
• US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the case, which he said “should never have been brought,” and fined Trump and Habba $937,989 at the defendants’ request. [CNN / Tierney Sneed]
• The fine is the latest legal trouble for Trump, who faces investigations into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the potential mishandling of classified documents. [New York Times / Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman, and Charlie Savage]
• Friday, Trump dropped a similar lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is suing him and his company for allegedly overstating property values. [Associated Press / Jill Colvin]

Peru’s growing protests

• Thousands of protesters from across Peru entered the capital Lima on Thursday, demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and new elections. [AP / Daniel Politi and Franklin Briceño]
• Dozens have died in clashes with police that began last month when former President Pedro Castillo was removed from office for attempting to dissolve Congress. [BBC / James FitzGerald]
• The demonstrations have grown into calls for government reform as the political turmoil exposes divisions between Peru’s rural poor and urban elite. [Washington Post / Samantha Schmidt]
• Boluarte has refused to resign and promised to punish the protesters who sought to “break the rule of law, generate chaos and disorder and seize power.” [Guardian / Dan Collyns]

Vox’s Marin Cogan explains the challenges women across the country face in planning families and making reproductive decisions after the fall of Roe. [Vox / Marin Cogan]

• Friday, a judge ruled Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the US Constitution when he suspended county prosecutor Andrew Warren for refusing to enforce an abortion ban. [Politico / Matt Dixon]
• Hackers accessed 37 million T-Mobile customers’ data in a November breach that included names, phone numbers, and emails. [USA Today / Wyatte Grantham-Philips]
• The US will impose sanctions on the Russian private military company Wagner Group for international criminal activity amid the war in Ukraine. [CNN / Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis]

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“Mr. Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries.”

[US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks on the Trump sanction / Politico]

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