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  "id": 13282474,
  "title": "Trump takes suit against Hillary Clinton over 2016 election to Supreme Court",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/trump-takes-suit-against-hillary-clinton-over-2016-election-to-13282474",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-10T00:44:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2026/10/10/trump-takes-suit-against-hillary-clinton-over-2016-election-to-supreme-court"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In 2016, Donald Trump, the then U.S. President, filed a lawsuit against his Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, alleging a conspiracy to rig the election by linking his campaign to Russia. The case was dismissed by a federal judge, who imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions against Trump and his lawyer for bringing a frivolous suit. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal and sanctions in 2025. Trump's lawyers argued that the lower courts' decisions were a troubling trend of federal courts using sanctions to punish the president and his lawyers for legitimate legal positions. They claimed the courts' rejection of their arguments was erroneous. Trump's lawsuit alleged that Clinton and her allies conspired to discredit him with false narratives about Russia collusion. Despite losing both the popular vote and the 2020 election, Trump continued to claim widespread voting fraud. The investigation by former FBI director Robert Mueller found that Russia did interfere in the 2016 election but did not establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives.",
  "summary": "The US president accused his 2016 Democratic rival of conspiring with the FBI and others to rig that year's election by linking his campaign to Russia.",
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      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "Trump takes suit against Hillary Clinton over 2016 election to Supreme Court",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/trump-takes-suit-against-hillary-clinton-over-2016-election-to",
        "published": "2026-10-09T23:39:53.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Trump takes suit against Hillary Clinton over 2016 election to Supreme Court",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/trump-takes-suit-against-hillary-clinton-over-2016-election-to",
        "published": "2026-10-10T00:44:25.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times",
        "title": "Trains to Delhi cancelled, metro shut even as Supreme Court tells Centre, cops to lift blanket curbs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/trains-to-delhi-cancelled-metro-shut-even-as-supreme-court-tells",
        "published": "2026-10-10T01:31:31.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
        "title": "Trump administration escalates war with International Criminal Court",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/trump-administration-escalates-war-with-international-criminal-court",
        "published": "2026-10-10T01:32:07.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Age",
        "title": "Trump administration escalates war with International Criminal Court",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/trump-administration-escalates-war-with-international-criminal-court-13284924",
        "published": "2026-10-10T01:32:07.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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