Christopher Steele wins libel case over Trump campaign dossier

The three Russians, who co-founded Russia’s largest private bank, sued for libel, but Judge Anthony Epstein, sitting in the Washington DC superior court, threw out their case.

He ruled that the dossier was not knowingly inaccurate, and therefore protected by the First Amendment because he acted “in furtherance of the right of advocacy on issues of public interest”.

Judge Epstein’s decision in the lawsuit did not consider whether the dossier was accurate or inaccurate.