The High Court in London rejected on Thursday (01) Donald Trump’s lawsuit against a British private investigations company over the “Steele dossier”, which alleged links between Trump’s election campaign and Russia.
As a result, Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, had filed a data protection lawsuit against Orbis Business Intelligence over allegations in a dossier written by its co-founder, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
Judge Karen Steyn ruled that the former US president’s case could not continue, saying in a written ruling that “there are no compelling reasons to allow the claim to proceed.”
It is worth remembering that Trump said, in a witness statement made public in October, that he filed the lawsuit to prove that the allegations in the so-called Steele dossier, published by the website BuzzFeed in 2017, that he engaged in “perverted sexual acts” in Russia, were fake.
Many of the allegations were never proven, and Trump’s lawyers said the report was “blatantly inaccurate” and contained numerous false or fabricated allegations.
