Clinton Lawsuit Judge Laughs Trump’s Disqualification Demand Out Of Court – By Cristina Cabrera (Talking Points Memo) / April 7, 2022
The judge overseeing ex-President Donald Trump’s mammoth lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and a slew of other 2016 political enemies rejected Trump’s request that the judge disqualify himself on Wednesday.
Trump had requested that that the judge, Donald Middlebrooks of the Southern District of Florida, step aside because he was appointed by Clinton’s husband, ex-President Bill Clinton.
In his decision, Judge Donald Middlebrooks said it wasn’t lost on him that Trump’s legal team had initially tried to file the lawsuit in a division of the Southern District of Florida that’s presided over by a Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon.
“Despite the odds, this case landed with me instead,” Middlebrooks wrote in his decision
