Trump demands extradition of former MI6 officer Christopher Steele over Russia dossier

Oliver O'Connell

11 July 2020 at 8:12 am

Donald Trump has demanded the extradition of Christopher Steele, the British former MI6 officer who wrote an infamous report into the US president's connections with Russia.

In a Saturday morning tweet the president said: "This man should be extradited, tried, and thrown into jail. A sick lier who was paid by Crooked Hillary & the DNC!"

He was retweeting a report from Just The News regarding a British court ruling that Mr Steele had violated a data privacy law by failing to check information in his infamous dossier on Trump's Russia connections.

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