Former President Donald Trump is suing former MI6 officer Christopher Steele over his work on the notoriously tainted documents that bear his name.
Trump, 77, is bringing data protection claims in the United Kingdom against Steele, who previously ran Britain’s intelligence desk in Russia, and his consulting firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, lawyer Tim Lowles said in a statement.
“Proceedings have been issued on behalf of President Donald J. Trump against Orbis Business Intelligence Limited. The claim relates to breaches of UK Data Protection law arising from the inaccurate processing of the President’s personal data by Orbis following the publication of the false ‘Steele Dossier’,” according to Lowles.
“The President’s claim seeks remedies including the deletion or correction of inaccurate data contained in the Steele Dossier along with the payment of damages,” the statement added.
A two-day trial is scheduled to begin on October 16, the Independent reported, citing a High Court order published Thursday. No other details about the proceedings were immediately available.
Former President Donald Trump is suing former MI6 officer Christopher Steele (above) over his work on the notoriously tainted documents that bear his name. AFP via Getty Images
The “Steele Dossier” circulated in political circles throughout the 2016 election campaign before being published by BuzzFeed News days before Trump took office in 2017.
The files appear to document Trump’s close ties to Moscow and outline possible ways the Kremlin could blackmail him.
The most outrageous allegations are that Trump paid prostitutes to urinate on the bed in the Moscow hotel room where Barack and Michelle Obama had stayed – and that the Russians had tapes of the whole thing.
The file purportedly documents Trump’s close ties to Moscow and outlines possible ways the Kremlin could blackmail him.REUTERS
The initial report was based on anonymous sources and was compiled by Fusion GPS, which was contracted for the task by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Information in the file was later used by federal investigators as evidence to obtain a surveillance warrant targeting Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.
The 35-page document was later publicly rejected at the FBI’s highest levels, with the bureau’s former deputy director, Andrew McCabe, telling lawmakers in November 2020 that he would not have approved Page’s warrant application had he known the information in the file. is inaccurate.
Trump, 77, is bringing a data protection claim in the United Kingdom against Steele, who previously ran Britain’s intelligence desk in Russia, according to reports. AP
In addition, the main source for the document, Igor Danchenko, was charged by special counsel John Durham with five counts of making false statements to the FBI about sources in the file, although he was eventually acquitted.
Steele has kept a low profile since the documents were published, appearing only occasionally to defend his work.
“The so-called dossier is actually a series of single-source intelligence reports over a period of time, if you like, almost a running commentary on the election campaign and the Russian perspective on it — and it comes from the Russian perspective on the telescope if you like,” he told Oxford Union in March 2022. “The sources are Russian, they report how the Russians see it, and of course, that may in some cases be quite different from how it is seen in America at the other end of the telescope.”
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