Donald Trump has failed to comply with a cost order to pay £300K in legal fees and has also ignored a formal offer to settle with Christopher Steele, a former MI6 agent who compiled a dossier alleging Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
Speaking to Sky News, Mr Steele said: ” The fact is we were awarded a £300,000 initial cost order in February, which was confirmed when his right of appeal was turned down at the end of March. And so he’s been in breach of that order for two months now.
” Cost is the key issue in all litigation, and particularly in what we call lawfare, which we think this is. It is an attempt to take vengeance against us or to keep us quiet.”
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