Donald Trump and lawyer fined for filing ‘bogus’ claim against Hillary Clinton

Former US president Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Former US president Donald Trump and one of his lawyers have been sanctioned by a Florida judge – who ordered them to pay almost one million US dollars (£810,000) for what he said was a bogus legal claim against Hillary Clinton and others.

Donald M Middlebrooks accused Mr Trump of a “pattern of abuse of the courts” by filing frivolous claims for political purposes, which he said “undermines the rule of law” and “amounts to obstruction of justice”.