Donald Trump’s data protection lawsuit for damages over allegations in the “Steele dossier” that he committed “perverted” sex crimes and made payments to Russian authorities has been denied by a high court judge in London.
Both Judge Steyn and Orbis Business Intelligence, which was founded by the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and generated the disputed information, agreed that the case should not go to trial.
According to the ruling made public on Thursday, the court found that Trump’s damages claim had been filed outside the six-year “limitations” period, but it did not “consider or determine the accuracy or inaccuracy of the memoranda.”
According to the court, Trump “has no real or reasonable basis for bringing a claim for compensation or damages.”
A compliance order erasing or restricting processing of the memoranda was the “only other remedy claimed,” it continued, but the Guardian reports that this would be “pointless, and unnecessary, in circumstances where the dossier was freely available on the internet, and the defendant had in any event undertaken to delete the copies it held.”
Leading the Republican field in this year’s election, the former US president had stated he would be ready to appear before the high court in the case alleging Orbis Business Intelligence broke data protection regulations about the 2016 “Steele dossier.”
The dossier, which examined Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, was released by Steele, the former head of MI6’s Russia department.The memo included allegations that Trump went to St. Petersburg sex clubs and used individuals as props in the presidential suite of a Moscow hotel. He disputes the claims.
