Donald Trump attempted to use the United Kingdom’s legal system to advance his claims of substantial harm stemming from the dossier tied to former British spy Christopher Steele that infamously relayed a series of allegations tying Trump and his team to Russia… and the ex-president-turned-GOP presidential candidate has fallen short.
The British publication The Telegraph has reported that Trump is now facing financial penalties amid a related court case that he brought in the country of at least $382,000. The growing penalties are meant to cover costs incurred by the Steele-involved intelligence firm Orbis in the course of Trump’s case.
The Telegraph explains that the company denied claims tying it to the dossier’s publication, which was the work most directly of news publications in the United States. “The judge said Mr Trump had allowed several years to pass by before attempting to vindicate his reputation in the UK,” the outlet explained on the subject of the judge’s reasoning used against Trump.
The sum in penalties now imposed on Trump was £300,000, which represented initial costs before later judicial determinations in the U.K. covering the precise amount of Orbis’ entire gamut of expenses.
Trump’s anger over the highly publicized dossier has been public and extensive, and he frequently references as supposed examples of his imagined mistreatment the previous scandals linking him substantively or only via allegations to Russia and interests in the country.
Trump tried suing Hillary Clinton and others, lobbing allegations in federal courts in the U.S. of a conspiracy impacting his campaign, though that lawsuit fell apart and resulted in prior demands from a federal judge for Trump and a lawyer of his to cough up some $1 million in financial penalties. It was the same lawyer, Alina Habba, who recently struggled through legal representation for Trump at a trial stemming from civil claims brought by writer E. Jean Carroll of defamation… which resulted in over $83 million in jury-imposed penalties on Trump.
