Mr. Trump’s lawsuit, filed in March against Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, her former campaign manager, the former MI6 agent who compiled a dossier of allegations about his relationship with the Russian government and several others personalities connected to the FBI investigation led by former special counsel Robert Mueller. He claimed they had all played a part in an “unthinkable plot” conspiring “maliciously” to “fabricate a false narrative that [Mr Trump] colluded with a hostile foreign dominion”. The former president accused Mrs Clinton and her co-defendants of using “opposition research” to “difficult public confidence” against Trump and asked the court to award more than $24 million in damages, which he claimed was the total amount of his legal bills accrued during the long-running Mueller investigation. But in a motion to dismiss filed Thursday, the 21 co-defendants asked that the case be dismissed with prejudice — meaning it could not be refiled — because each of Mr. Trump’s claims is “hopelessly stale” and each “fails on the merits from many independent points of view’. “Whatever the usefulness of Plaintiff’s amended complaint as a fundraising tool, press release or list of political grievances, it has no merit as a lawsuit,” they said. They also explained that the “gravity” of Mr. Trump’s allegations relate to events that allegedly occurred in 2015, 2016 and 2016, which puts them well beyond the five-year statute of limitations during which he could have testified complaint. Noting a series of tweets by Mr Trump that referred to the events in question, they said he waited “four years, four months and twenty-four days before filing suit”. “His delay renders each of these claims untimely,” they added.
