On Friday, Trump and attorney Alina Habba sent a letter to U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks. He offered to post a $1.03 million bond to appeal an order granting the pair $937,989 to file a conspiracy lawsuit against Clinton and others, Bloomberg reported.

Middlebrooks last month dismissed the lawsuit as completely without legal merit, saying it was nothing more than a partisan political manifesto that wasted taxpayer money and time on legal action.

He accused the former president of a “pattern of judicial misconduct” for filing several such lawsuits for political purposes, which Middlebrooks called “undermining the rule of law” and “amounting to obstruction of justice”.

He added: “We have a case that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought with the wrong motive.”

Middlebrooks blasted Trump as a “mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process,” who “uses the courts to retaliate against political opponents.”

Middlebrooks filed a joint motion for sanctions on behalf of 18 defendants who filed a joint motion alleging that Trump filed the lawsuit with bogus claims to dishonestly advance a political narrative.

As of Saturday, Middlebrooks had not issued a decision on Trump and Hubba’s posted bond offer.