A lawyer for former President Donald Trump told a judge in London that his client intends to demonstrate that an infamous report authored by a discredited former British spy contained false allegations that damaged his reputation and jeopardized his first run for the presidency.
Hugh Tomlinson, the defense attorney, argued on October 16 that the dossier “contained shocking and scandalous claims about the personal conduct of President Trump” and that it included allegations that Trump paid Russian officials to advance his financial interests.
According to Trump, the substance of his argument is that “this personal data is egregiously inaccurate.”
Christopher Steele has been named as a defendant in the lawsuit against the company he founded, Orbis Business Intelligence. Steele compiled the dossier containing uncorroborated allegations that sparked a political upheaval in 2016 just before the presidential election.
The Steele dossier was purchased by intermediaries for the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee and used in part by the FBI in application for campaign surveillance warrants.
Steele, a former director of the Russia desk for the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, was paid by Democrats to produce research containing allegations involving prostitutes that Russia could potentially