UK judge refuses Trump's appeal in suit related to Steele dossier

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Published 8:03 PM EDT, Fri March 29, 2024


CNN — A London appellate justice refused former President Donald Trump’s request to appeal the dismissal of his case against retired British spy Christopher Steele’s company over his controversial 2016 dossier.

The former president had sought permission to appeal Judge Karen Steyn’s February judgement that Trump’s data privacy case — which argued that Steele harmed his reputation by peddling “egregiously inaccurate” claims about his Russian ties — lacked merit and should be thrown out. Steyn also ordered Trump to pay £300,000 in legal fees to Steele’s company, Orbis Business Intelligence, which Trump requested to be stayed.

In his order Wednesday, Lord Justice Mark Warby said Trump’s “appeal would have no real prospect of success,” finding that some of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s arguments were contradictory and his appeal attempted to offer new points that he didn’t present before Steyn.

The ruling comes as a loss for Trump, who has already been hit with more than a half a billion dollars in legal penalties this year. The former president faces a deadline to post a $175 million bond next week following a New York civil fraud trial, and he has been ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million dollars in her civil defamation case. Trump also faces his own legal fees in four separate criminal cases. Steele celebrated the ruling, telling CNN in a statement Friday that he is “grateful.”

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. The big loser is an international loser. . . . nt

[wolfie001]

2. Always more and more courtroom shenanigans with the Fat Don

His cult always gives him a free pass while being grifted 24/7. Over and over again.

[UpInArms]

3. 300,000 👀

Is $323,794.73

Looks like TFG is headed for the billionaire debtor club

[KS Toronado]

11. Negative Billionaire Club or NBC ?

[mwooldri]

4. Well there is a UK Supreme Court...

...which he can apply for permission to appeal. However if the appeals court says they won't hear the appeal, it's quite unlikely the Supreme Court will give permission.

Cough up, Brokeahontas.

[Talitha]

12. "Brokeahontas"

That's brilliant!

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. That's a lot of bibles to sell.

[3Hotdogs]

6. T'ain't nuthin. $300,000 Brit funny money, is only worth $280k in real money.

He's a billionaire. He can afford it.

[NanaCat]

7. The UK courts are notoriously plaintiff-friendly

When it comes to defamation. Unlike in the US, they do not require proving malice aforethought to rule in a plaintiff's favour. If the crap people say about you damages you, malice intended or not, the courts can be quite sympathetic.

Given that leniency, I was really surprised that TSF lost this lawsuit. That he couldn't get a defamation case to stick in the UK, of all places, shows how utterly divorced his claims are from reality.

Or maybe it's that the court decided they wouldn't put up with rot from a perpetually whinging titty baby Yank against a British citizen. Unspoken tribal loyalty isn't unheard of among the lords and ladies of the High Court.

[PatSeg]

9. Yeah, I think your last comment applies

They're not going to put up with this crass, vulgar American. Christopher Steele has far more credibility than Donald Trump. Plus the whole world knows what a corrupt con artist Trump is and they've grown tired of his bullshit.

[FakeNoose]

13. Time for a slap-back lawsuit from Christopher Steele against Chump

The UK courts would probably welcome it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. It wasn't a case for defamation - Trump made it about data protection

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-steele-dossier-uk-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-vs-orbis-business/

I think they knew that, since Orbis and Steele didn't publish it, they couldn't be taken to court for libel.

[PatSeg]

8. Poor, poor Donald, just can't win for losing!

I wonder if he's broken any records as to how much money he's spent on lawyers just since leaving the White House.

[Botany]

10. "egregiously inaccurate" claims about his Russian ties.."*

So far not one thing in the Steele Dossier has been disproven. As a matter of fact Trump proved
a major part of true as President with all the money he took from China, Saudi Arabia, and Russia.

*. Alfa Bank (Putin’s operation) 2,500 contacts with the Trump Campaign’s server in Lititiz, PA

[Talitha]

14. "ordered Trump to pay 300,000 in legal fees"

According to onlineconversion.com that's $378,663.

[Jimvanhise]

15. TIES TO RUSSIA IN 2016?

The Mueller report states that people in the Trump campaign had more than 100 contacts with people later identified as Russian operatives. When those campaign people were asked about what was discussed at those meetings, they all said that they "don't remember."