{"id":2166224,"date":"2024-02-02T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-steele-dossier-lawsuit-dismissed-by-london-high-court\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T20:01:51","slug":"trumps-steele-dossier-lawsuit-dismissed-by-london-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-steele-dossier-lawsuit-dismissed-by-london-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"London high court dismisses Trump&#8217;s Steele dossier lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-steele-dossier-lawsuit-dismissed-by-london-high-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2166224&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A London \u200bJudge Dismisses Trump&#8217;s Privacy Lawsuit Against Christopher Steele<\/h2>\n<p>A London judge has dismissed\u2062 former President Donald Trump&#8217;s privacy lawsuit against former British spy Christopher Steele. In the lawsuit, Trump accused\u200d Steele of making \u200d&#8221;false and scandalous claims&#8221; in a dossier. However, British Judge Karen Steyn\u200d stated that there were &#8220;no compelling \u200breasons&#8221; to proceed with the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had allowed many years \u200dto pass without taking\u2063 legal\u2064 action to\u2063 &#8220;vindicate his reputation in this jurisdiction&#8221; since he\u2063 became aware of the dossier&#8217;s existence in January 2017. The lawsuit, filed in October,\u2064 focused on a 35-page dossier containing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-told-us-the-bombshell-hunter-biden-scandal-was-russian-disinformation-he-just-admitted-the-laptop-could-be-his\/\" title=\"The Media Told Us The \u2018Bombshell\u2019 Hunter Biden Scandal Was Russian Disinformation. He Just Admitted The Laptop \u2018Could\u2019 Be His\">unverified allegations<\/a> about \u200dTrump and the 2016\u2062 presidential election. This dossier was used by \u2062the FBI in its investigation into Russia&#8217;s alleged links to the election.<\/p>\n<p>Steyn clarified that she\u2064 did not assess the accuracy\u200d of the memoranda when making her ruling, but she \u200cbelieved that Trump&#8217;s claim\u200b for damages was \u200b&#8221;bound to fail.&#8221; Orbis Business Intelligence, Steele&#8217;s consultancy company,\u200c expressed its delight\u2062 with\u200b the ruling, despite believing that the \u2063case should not have been filed. Orbis\u200c claimed that the dossier was never intended for public release and that \u200cBuzzfeed \u2063published it without their permission.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-elise-stefanik-calls-for-saratoga-party-chair-to-resign-democrat-primary-is-a-trainwreck\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Elise Stefanik Calls for Saratoga Party Chair to Resign: Democrat Primary Is a \u2018Trainwreck\u2019\">campaign stated<\/a> that it would continue to &#8220;fight for \u2063truth&#8221; against Steele and Orbis, but did not specify how it would do so. \u2062Trump&#8217;s\u2064 spokesman, Steven Cheung, criticized Steele and his \u2064group for their &#8220;false \u200dand\u2062 defamatory allegations&#8221; in the fake dossier. Cheung \u200cemphasized\u2064 that President Trump would persist in \u2064his \u2063pursuit of truth and \u200ccombat \u2063falsehoods propagated by Steele and his associates.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How has Trump&#8217;s campaign\u200c responded to the\u200c dismissal of the\u200c lawsuit and what actions do\u2062 they plan to take in order to challenge \u200bChristopher Steele\u2062 and\u200c Orbis<\/h2>\n<p><span>  A London judge has \u200cdismissed former President Donald Trump&#8217;s privacy \u2063lawsuit against former British spy Christopher Steele. The \u2064lawsuit, which accused\u200d Steele of making false \u200dand \u200dscandalous claims in a dossier, \u200bhas been thrown\u2062 out\u200d by \u200dBritish Judge Karen Steyn who stated that\u200c there were \u200bno compelling reasons to proceed \u2063with the trial.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 lawsuit, \u2063which was filed in October, centered around a 35-page dossier that contained \u2062unverified allegations about Trump and the 2016 presidential election. This dossier was famously used by the FBI in its investigation into Russia&#8217;s alleged links to the election.\u200d However, Trump \u2062had allowed many \u200cyears to\u2064 pass\u2064 without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/n-m-widower-sues-alburquerque-over-sanctuary-city-policy\/\" title=\"N.M. widower sues Alburquerque over sanctuary city policy\">taking legal action<\/a> to vindicate his reputation in this jurisdiction since he became aware of the \u2064dossier&#8217;s existence \u200bin January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Steyn made it clear that she did not assess the accuracy of the memoranda\u2063 when making \u2063her \u2064ruling. However, she believed\u200d that Trump&#8217;s \u200dclaim for\u2063 damages was &#8220;bound\u200b to fail.&#8221; Steele&#8217;s consultancy company, Orbis Business Intelligence,\u2062 expressed its\u200c delight \u2063with the \u2064ruling, despite believing that\u200b the case should never have been\u200c filed. Orbis claimed \u2062that the\u200c dossier was never intended for public release and\u2063 that BuzzFeed published it\u2063 without their \u200cpermission.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the dismissal, Trump&#8217;s\u2063 campaign stated that it \u2063would continue to fight for truth against\u2064 Steele and\u200c Orbis,\u200b but did not specify how \u200dit would\u200d do so. Trump&#8217;s spokesman, Steven Cheung, criticized Steele and his\u200c group for their false and defamatory \u2064allegations in the fake dossier.\u2064 Cheung emphasized\u200c that\u200c President Trump would persist\u200d in\u200d his pursuit of\u200c truth \u200cand combat falsehoods propagated by \u200dSteele and his associates.<\/p>\n<p>This ruling marks a \u200dsetback for\u200c Trump, who\u200d has sought to challenge\u2062 the veracity\u200b of the dossier in question. Despite the dismissal of his privacy lawsuit, it\u2064 remains to be seen \u2064how \u200bTrump will continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-committee-deadlocks-on-becerra-nomination\/\" title=\"Senate Committee Deadlocks on Becerra Nomination\">pursue legal action<\/a> or defend his reputation against the claims made in\u2063 the dossier. Only\u2064 time will tell if this battle for truth will ever truly be resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A London judge rejected Donald Trump&#8217;s privacy lawsuit against ex-British spy Christopher Steele. Trump accused Steele of making false claims in a dossier. Judge Karen Steyn stated no strong grounds to proceed to trial and highlighted Trump&#8217;s delayed action over several years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2643,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}