NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 6: Former President Donald Trump prepares to testify during his trial in New York State Supreme Court on November 06, 2023 in New York City. Trump is scheduled to testify in the civil fraud trial that alleges that he and his two sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump conspired to inflate his net worth on financial statements provided to banks and insurers to secure loans. New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued seeking $250 million in damages. His sons testified in the trial last week and his daughter Ivanka Trump is scheduled to testify on Wednesday after her lawyers were unable to block her testimony. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
British High Court of Justice Judge Karen Steyn has ordered Donald Trump to pay 300,000 pounds ($382,000) for a frivolous lawsuit he brought against the authors of the Steele Dossier in London.
Last month, Judge Steyn dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that it was “bound to fail.”
In late 2023, Trump had filed a lawsuit against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy started by Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer. He claimed that his data was unprotected and wanted compensation for the emotional distress it had caused him.
Steele once ran the secret intelligence service’s Russia desk and wrote the Steele dossier, and, in it, claimed the former president was “compromised” by the Russian security service, the Federal Security Bureau, in 2015.
In a witness statement, Trump denied the allegations that he hired sex workers for deviant acts and gave Russian authorities “sufficient material to blackmail” him.
He said that he decided to bring his legal case to court to prove the information in the Steele Dossier was false and further explained that “not one of the damning allegations contained in the Steele reporting was ever corroborated.”
“There are no compelling reasons to allow the claim to proceed to trial,” Steyn stated in a ruling.
“I have not considered, or made any determination, as to the accuracy or inaccuracy of the [allegations],” she added regarding the former president’s accusations.
Orbis declared that Trump made his claim simply to deliver his “longstanding grievances” against both the company and Steele.
Steyn said in her ruling that she did not need to decide this because the ex-president had “no reasonable grounds for bringing a claim for compensation or damages.”
“President Trump will continue to fight for the truth and against falsehoods such as ones promulgated by Steele and his cohorts,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.
It is one of many recent legal setbacks for the former president. In February, he was ordered to pay $410 million in a civil fraud case. In January, he was found liable for defamation of E. Jean Carroll and ordered to pay her $83 million.
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