COURTS/DEMS/LEGAL/NEW YORK/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democratic National Committee opened a new legal assault on President Trump on Friday [4-20-18] by filing a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the organization was the victim of a conspiracy by Russian officials, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. The 66-page lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, assembles the publicly known facts of the investigation into Russia’s election meddling to accuse Mr. Trump’s associates of illegally working with Russian intelligence agents to interfere with the outcome of the election…The Democrats accused Mr. Trump’s campaign of being ‘a racketeering enterprise’ that worked with the Russians and WikiLeaks in a conspiracy that included hacking email servers at the D.N.C. and leaking damaging information to the public. The lawsuit demands monetary damages and a declaration that the defendants conspired to alter the course of the election.”
-Michael D. Shear, “Democratic Party Alleges Trump-Russia Conspiracy in New Lawsuit,” The New York Times online, April 20, 2018