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Former President Trump asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to toss nearly $1 million in sanctions against him and his attorneys after a judge found a lawsuit brought against Hillary Clinton and other defendants was without merit.

In a filing in the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Trump’s lawyers argued that a federal judge’s order dismissing a lawsuit in 2022 and further ordering sanctions in 2023 against Trump and his attorneys were not justified. They also argue the sanctions “violated due process and was an abuse of discretion.”

“The district court made a clear error and abused its discretion in finding that Appellants acted in bad faith, and in imposing almost $1 million in inherent authority sanctions,” the appeal stated.

U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, an appointee of former President Clinton, sanctioned Trump and his legal team more than $900,000 in a January 2023 order for what he described as a “continuing pattern” of misusing the court.

“This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim,” Middlebrooks wrote last year.

The sanctions came after the same judge dismissed a lawsuit in 2022 brought by Trump against his 2016 political opponent Hillary Clinton and several others. The lawsuit alleged the defendants “orchestrated a malicious conspiracy to disseminate patently false and injurious information” about Trump and his campaign.

The former president claimed the “conspiracy” was conducted “all in the hopes of destroying his life, his political career and rigging the 2016 Presidential Election in favor of Hillary Clinton.”

Middlebrooks said at the time that the lawsuit was a “political manifesto.”

Attorneys for Clinton declined to comment.

The Hill has reached out to Trump’s legal team and his campaign for comment.

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Grudgingly accepting media coverage and partisan attacks is part of a politician’s job. While former U.S. presidents and high-ranking government officers have certain social obligations in retirement, those that truly want to stay out of the spotlight sometimes manage to do so without too much scrutiny.

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Press attention seems to follow former first lady and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wherever she goes. Her recent political statements regarding Donald Trump and his supporters and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have garnered strong support from some camps and cutting rejoinders from others.

Mostly, however, Clinton has gotten on with her life as a devoted wife, mother and grandmother since leaving public office. She and her ex-president husband, Bill, have kept busy giving speeches and writing books — and in doing so, have amassed an impressive fortune.

While OpenSecrets estimated Clinton’s net worth to be $32 million in 2014, and GOBankingRates reported it was about $45 million in 2017, the Clintons have an estimated net worth of $120 million today, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

Included in her last public financial disclosure reports, dated June 28, 2008, Hillary Clinton listed assets totaling millions of dollars representing a broad spectrum of asset values. However, exact figures for some income and asset types aren’t required. More accurate net worth figures are available from the Clintons’ tax returns.

It’s not required by law to disclose tax returns to the public, but presidential candidates typically do so as a show of transparency. As Reuters reported during Clinton’s run for president in 2016, her and her husband’s “tax returns have been made public, in some form, every year since 1977.”

In an effort to get Donald Trump to release his tax returns, the Clintons released their 2015 tax return in August 2016. In it, the couple claimed about $10.75 million in income and paid more than $3.62 million, a rate of 34.2%, in federal taxes, according to Time.

Although she worked as as staff attorney for Children’s Defence Fund, as a full partner for the respected Rose Law Firm and was on the boards of directors for several companies — including Walmart, TCBY and LaFarge — she and her husband’s income comes from their years as politicians and, especially, their careers as public speakers and book writers afterwards.

As Bill told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in 2010, “I’ve never had any money until I got out of the White House. But I’ve done reasonably well since then.” The same goes for Hillary, who was commanding around $275,000 for paid appearances when she left the Obama administration in 2013. As CNN reported, from 2007 to 2014, Clinton and her husband were paid nearly $141 million in paid speeches, according to their tax returns.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former U.S. Secretary of State, will join Columbia University as professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and presidential fellow at Columbia World Projects (CWP). The news was announced today in a message to the community from President Lee C. Bollinger.

“I have had the great pleasure of knowing Hillary personally for three decades, since her early days as First Lady of the United States. Her public service has expanded since then, most notably in her remarkably successful tenure as Senator for the State of New York, in her impressive role as Secretary of State, and in her two historic and record-breaking presidential campaigns. Given her extraordinary talents and capacities together with her singular life experiences, Hillary Clinton is unique, and, most importantly, exceptional in what she can bring to the University’s missions of research and teaching, along with public service and engagement for the public good,” Bollinger wrote.

“I am honored to join Columbia University, and the School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia World Projects,” said Clinton. “Columbia’s commitment to educating the next generation of U.S. and global policy leaders, translating insights into impact, and helping to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges resonates personally with me. I look forward to contributing to these efforts.”

At SIPA, which focuses on global politics and policy, Clinton will work closely with Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo and other senior faculty and administrators on a variety of major initiatives and engage with students in the classroom starting in the 2023-2024 academic year.

“She is a remarkable leader who has been on the frontlines of virtually every critical challenge facing our world today—from the global fight to save democracy, her advocacy for women’s rights, and her staunch defense of marginalized people everywhere,” Yarhi-Milo said.

As a complement to the university’s “Fourth Purpose” initiative, Clinton also will help lead a major SIPA effort to convene outstanding policy thinkers from around the world to develop innovative policy solutions.

In her role with Columbia World Projects, Clinton will be helping Executive Vice President for Columbia Global and CWP Director Wafaa El-Sadr and CWP Deputy Director Ira Katznelson explore the fundamental questions on how to advance efforts to renew democracy and foster effective engagements with women and youth in this country and around the world.

“We look forward to welcoming this extraordinarily accomplished global leader and passionate advocate for women, children, and social justice to Columbia World Projects. We are eager for her contributions to our efforts to advance rigorous scholarship and pursue sound policies and effective actions,” said El-Sadr.

Hillary Clinton is beaming next to husband Bill Clinton in an old photo she shared on Twitter on Monday.

"Happy Valentine's Day!" the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee wrote — adding double-heart emoji — to caption the throwback pic of the young couple, who've been married since Oct. 11, 1975. Former President Clinton had his own memory to share on social media, posting a photo of the two dancing from 1982.

Their love story, despite its famous challenges, stretches back to their days as Yale University law students in the early 1970s.

"In the spring of 1971, I met a girl," the former president said of crossing paths with Hillary Rodham more than five decades ago.

"The first time I saw her we were, appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights. She had thick blond hair, big glasses, wore no makeup, and she had a sense of strength and self- possession that I found magnetic," the former president said in his speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, where his wife received her historic nomination. "After the class I followed her out, intending to introduce myself. I got close enough to touch her back, but I couldn't do it. Somehow I knew this would not be just another tap on the shoulder, that I might be starting something I couldn't stop."

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The former first lady told her version of when sparks flew in 2016: "I first saw him, I was walking through the student lounge and I heard this voice saying to a group of people, '… and not only that but we grow the biggest watermelons in the world.' And I said, 'Who is that?' And somebody said, 'That's Bill Clinton. He's from Arkansas; that's all he ever talks about.' "

When eyes met one day among the law library book stacks, she approached him.

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"She walked the whole length of the library, came up to me and said, 'Look, if you're going to keep staring at me and now I'm staring back, we at least ought to know each other's name. I'm Hillary Rodham, who are you?' " he recalled in his 2016 speech. "I was so impressed and surprised that, whether you believe it or not, momentarily I was speechless."

Their first date was a stroll across campus that ended with their first kiss outside her dorm.

"We just started walking around, New Haven, Connecticut, and we spent hours together, we went to a museum, we went to dinner, we just went on and on," she said in 2016.

"We've been walking and talking and laughing together ever since," the president said in his speech decades later. "We've done it in good times and bad, through joy and heartbreak."

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After a sex scandal erupted (and not the first) over his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and led to his impeachment, President Clinton wrote of his wife as a salve as they emerged from the deeply embarrassing episode that rocked their relationship and his administration.

"Hillary stood with me and loved me through it all," he wrote in his autobiography, My Life.