Article snippet: NEW YORK — Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign asked a judge Tuesday to penalize the Democratic National Committee for alleging in a lawsuit a conspiracy between the campaign and Russia, saying special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings revealed the ‘‘doomed effort to prove a falsehood.’’ But lawyers for the Democratic Party responded by saying Mueller’s report confirms and bolsters their claims by detailing the campaign’s repeated suspicious interactions with Russian agents, proving the campaign participated in Russia’s election interference. The arguments on both sides were included in the Trump campaign’s filing in Manhattan federal court, where a judge is considering the merits of the DNC’s April 2018 lawsuit against the Trump campaign, Russia, WikiLeaks and Trump’s son and son-in-law. The lawsuit sought unspecified damages, alleging a conspiracy to cheat Democrats. In seeking sanctions Tuesday including legal costs, Donald J. Trump for President Inc. contended that Mueller ‘‘definitively refuted the notion that the Campaign conspired or in any way coordinated with Russia.’’ The 448-page Mueller report was released on April 18, though nearly 40% of the report’s pages had redactions. ‘‘The assumption, of course, was that the Special Counsel would substantiate the DNC’s claims,’’ the Trump campaign lawyers wrote. ‘‘Suffice it to say, that assumption did not pan out.’’ The campaign’s lawyers said the report ‘‘debunks any such conclusi... Link to the full article to read more