Former President Donald Trump will have to pay more than $300,000 in legal fees to a company founded by a former British spy behind a salacious 2016 opposition research dossier, a British judge reportedly ruled Thursday, multiple outlets reported, one month after Trump’s lawsuit against the company was thrown out.
Last month, a London judge threw out a case against Orbis Business Intelligence, founded by former British spy Christopher Steele, writing there were “no compelling reasons to allow the claim to proceed” in her ruling.
Trump’s lawyers claimed Steele had made “shocking and scandalous” allegations when he compiled the so-called Steele dossier, a series of documents purporting to break down Trump’s alleged Russia ties that were published online days before Trump was inaugurated—and included false, fabricated or inaccurate information about the former president.
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