Trump suffers another loss in court after judge rejects 'vendetta' Steele dossier lawsuit

Former President Donald Trump was just handed another loss in court – this time in the United Kingdom.

Bloomberg reported Thursday that a judge in the UK ruled against the former president in his lawsuit against former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele and his intelligence firm, Orbis, which assembled a 2016 dossier alleging Trump and his campaign were compromised by Vladimir Putin's regime.

Trump filed the lawsuit seeking both compensation for "significant damage and distress" as well as a statement from the court that the allegations in the dossier were false. However, Judge Karen Steyn was unmoved by his argument, stating that the ex-president was "seeking court findings to vindicate his reputation in circumstances where has not been able to formulate any viable remedy which he would have a real prospect of obtaining."

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The Steele dossier — commissioned by a firm contracting with the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign — famously included allegations that Trump paid Russian sex workers to urinate on a bed that former President Barack Obama had once slept on. Even though the media has since moved on, Trump has continued to revive the "golden showers" rumor on multiple occasions. New York Magazine reported that Trump insisted he was "not into golden showers" during a Senate Republican retreat, though no one had brought up the subject.

Late last year, as he was in and out of the courtroom for his civil fraud trial in New York, Trump again referenced the rumor on the campaign trail.

"It started with Russia, Russia, Russia, remember that?" Trump said. "He was with four hookers. You think that was good that night to go up and tell my wife, 'It's not true, darling, I love you very much. It's not true!' Actually, that one she didn’t believe, 'cause she said, 'He’s a germophobe; he’s not into that. He’s not into golden showers, as they say they called it, he’s not.'"

Orbis lawyers shrugged off Trump's unsuccessful lawsuit as a "vendetta" by a plaintiff with a penchant for "harassing perceived enemies and others against whom he bears a grudge."

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