Trump Takes Another L in Court – Judge Orders Him to Pay Steele Dossier Company’s Legal Fees

A judge in London ordered former President Donald Trump to pay a six-figure legal bill for a company he sued for claiming he engaged in sex acts with prostitutes and paid bribes to Russian officials.

Last month, Justice Steyn dismissed the case against Orbis Business Intelligence, the consultant group founded by former M16 officer Christopher Steele. Steele is best known for writing the dossier that made the shocking claims about Trump’s alleged behavior before becoming president.

The judge noted the case was “bound to fail” and order Trump to pay the company’s legal bills of 300,000 pounds ($382,000), according to a Thursday report from the Associated Press.

Meanwhile, the Republican frontrunner faces mounting legal issues in the U.S. with four criminal indictments and a $355 million civil judgment against his company for fraud. Moreover, he has been ordered to pay author E. Jean Carroll over $80 million for defamation after he was already found liable by a New York jury of sexually abusing her back in the 1990s.

In the new ruling, the judge ordered Trump to pay Orbis’s full costs of dealing with the lawsuit. Steele was the author of the dossier that claimed Trump was compromised by the Russian security service.

Per the AP:

Orbis said the lawsuit should be thrown out because the report was never meant to be made public and was published by BuzzFeed without the permission of Steele or Orbis. It also said the claim was filed too late.

Judge Karen Steyn, who sided with Orbis in her Feb. 1 ruling, issued an order several days later on the legal costs.

She cut the amount of legal bills Orbis said it incurred — 634,000 pounds ($809,000) — by more than 50% because she said it was high considering there had only been a one-day hearing.