Christopher Steele reveals why Donald Trump has failed to pay $380K in legal fees after losing UK dossier case

After becoming the first former or current president in the history of the United States to get convicted in a criminal case, Donald Trump has declined to comply with a UK High Court order requiring him to pay £300,000 in legal expenses. Calling cost the most important factor in every litigation, he asserted that it is an attempt by Trump to take “vengeance against us or to keep us quiet.” The GOP leader has also rejected a formal offer to settle with Christopher Steele, a former MI6 agent who prepared a dossier claiming Russian intervention in the 2016 US election. According to the ex-MI6 officer, the violation increases the possibility of a re-elected Trump travelling to the United Kingdom as the US President after refusing to make payments and “treating our legal system with contempt”. Calling cost the most important factor in every litigation, he asserted that it is an attempt to take “vengeance against us or to keep us quiet.” “We're talking about perhaps the next president of the US here, who is running for office and claims to love and respect the UK, and in fact is treating our legal system with contempt,” he said. He further claimed that the former US President has been attempting to postpone many of these legal issues, fines, and costs until after “what he thinks will be his re-election in November, in which case he will just tell us all to go jump, basically.” Taking to X, Steele wrote: “Trump, who claims to respect the UK, has now been in breach of this order for two months and faces enforcement if he travels here again.” The former US President has so far paid the court £10,000 as surety against legal fees ahead of the hearing.