Larry Klayman, a conspiracy theorist and WND columnist who has been at the margins of the conservative movement for decades, is behind a dubious lawsuit accusing Hillary Clinton of racketeering. Klayman is utterly lacking in credibility, having filed numerous far-fetched lawsuits targeting the Clintons over the years. He has also repeatedly suggested the Clintons “orchestrated the murders of several of their associates in the 1990s.”
According to The Hill, Klayman has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, accusing Hillary Clinton of using her private emails “to sell access to other officials in return for donations to the Clinton Foundation.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has already rejected a motion by Klayman to hold Clinton in contempt of court for not providing her emails in response “to a request seeking information on leaks about U.S. use of computer worms and viruses to set back Iran's nuclear program,” according to Politico.
While The Hill notes that Klayman “launched dozens of lawsuits against former President Bill Clinton's administration,” the paper leaves out the relevant context that he is a discredited conspiracy theorist.
Klayman is the founder and head of Freedom Watch. He also previously led the conservative group Judicial Watch. In his capacity as a “legal crusader,” the Washington Post described his “record in public interest cases” as “incalculably terrible.”
In the 1990s, Klayman reportedly filed at least 18 lawsuits against the Clinton administration, accusing them of various conspiracies, and has filed “hundreds of lawsuits against federal agencies, White House officials, Cabinet secretaries, judges, journalists, former colleagues, foreign governments, dictators, presidents,” his own mother, and The Washington Post.
The Week explained in 2013 that Klayman, “implied the Clintons orchestrated the murders of several of their associates in the 1990s, a prime reason he has argued Hillary is unfit to be president.”
As reported by The Washington Post, in 2014, Klayman premised a lawsuit on the concept that “The Ebola virus is secretly a biological weapon allowed into the country by the Obama administration to further terrorist interests against Americans of the 'Caucasian race and Jewish-Christian religion.'” Klayman described President Obama in a lawsuit as “not even a naturalized U.S. citizen and thus is in the United States illegally,” and described Obama's birth certificate as a “fraud.” In order “to maintain the confidence of the American people and for the benefit of the country's democratic system,” Klayman subsequently petitioned the government to “initiate removal and deportation proceedings” against the president. Klayman has referred to President Obama as “mullah in chief” and accused “Obama and his Muslim friends” of “literally 'making love' with each other.” He called Obama “our first 'Muslim' president” who “has joined with Palestinians to now knock off Israel.”
In a 2013 protest at the White House, Klayman told the audience that President Obama should “put the Quran down,” “get up off his knees” and “come out with his hands up.”
A month later, Klayman held the “Second American Revolution” rally in Lafayette Park across from the White House, which sought to force the resignation of President Obama and other top Congressional leaders.
Klayman was at one point barred from practicing law in New York City, because he suggested that an Asian-American judge was unable to rule impartially in a case due to his race.