AceBreakingNews – A judge in London’s High Court threw out a lawsuit by former US president Donald Trump on Thursday, which accused a former British spy of making “shocking and scandalous claims” that were false and harmed his reputation.

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Mr Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, had sued private investigations firm Orbis Business Intelligence about claims in a dossier written by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who co-founded the firm.

The so-called Steele dossier alleged ties between Mr Trump’s campaign and Russia.

Mr Trump, 77, said in a witness statement made public in October that he brought the case to prove claims in the dossier, published by the BuzzFeed website in 2017, that he engaged in “perverted sexual acts” in Russia, were false.

The uncorroborated allegations caused a political storm just before Mr Trump’s inauguration in January 2017.

Mr Steele, who once ran the Russia desk for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, was paid by Democrats to compile research that included salacious allegations that Russians could potentially use to blackmail Mr Trump.

Mr Trump said the dossier was fake news and a political witch hunt, and had sought damages from Orbis for allegedly violating British data protection laws.

The firm successfully sought to have the case thrown out.

Judge Karen Steyn ruled that Mr Trump’s case could not continue, saying in a written ruling that “there are no compelling reasons to allow the claim to proceed to trial”.

Many of the allegations in the dossier were never substantiated and lawyers for Mr Trump said that the report was “egregiously inaccurate” and contained “numerous false, phoney or made-up allegations”.

Orbis, however, argued that Mr Trump brought the claim simply to address his “longstanding grievances” against the company and Mr Steele.

The London lawsuit is just one of many legal cases involving Mr Trump, who faces four separate criminal prosecutions in the United States.

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