London:
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has refused to pay 290,000 pounds ($ 360,000) in legal fees after his demand for English against a private investigation firm was dismissed, according to a London court.
Trump filed a demand for data protection against Orbis business intelligence on accusations in a file written by his co -founder, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, but his claim was expelled in February last year.
The so -called Steele file alleged links between Trump’s electoral campaign in 2016 and Russia, as well as other salary accusations, all of which Trump denied.
The lawyers who represent Orbis said Wednesday that Trump had received a payment of 290,000 pounds towards the legal fees of Orbis, and more sums must also be overcome.
“No real reason for non -payment has been given,” said Orbis’s lawyer Mark Friston.
He said Trump was also affirming that he had “sovereign immunity” of any application action as head of state, an argument that said it was “completely desperate”, since it had been a private demand.
Trump’s lawyer, Jacqueline Perry, said the court was in a “slightly unusual position, with a slightly unusual client.”
“It’s hard to get instructions when your client is president of the free world and tries to turn everything,” he said. “This is not high in its importance.”
She said the president was “an innocent part of this” and was presenting a claim for professional negligence against his former legal advisors for submitting his claim from the Superior Court under the wrong statute.
“That was the only reason why the case was eliminated,” he said, adding that he wanted the action against his former advisors to be resolved before addressing the costs “in a striking way” of Orbis.
Judge Jason Rowley ruled that Trump must pay the 290,000 pounds within 28 days, or it would be avoided to be addressed to the Court in April on a future argument on Orbis’s legal fees.
Trump’s data protection demand was dismissed, and Judge Karen Steyn ruled that “there are no convincing reasons to allow the claim to proceed.”
Trump said in a witness statement for the hearing that presented the case to prove the statements in the so -called Steele file, published by the Buzzfeed website in 2017, which was dedicated to “perverted sexual acts” in Russia, were false.
Many of the statements in the file were never based and Trump’s lawyers said the report was “atrociously inaccurate” and contained “numerous false, false or invented accusations.”
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