Steele said in a witness statement that Trump’s decision to declassify his 2017 testimony to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was “one of the most egregious breaches of intelligence rules and protocol by the US government in recent times”.

The former intelligence officer also said: “Two of the named Russian sources have not been seen or heard of since.”

His witness statement was made public on Tuesday, the day after Trump asked London’s High Court to allow his data protection lawsuit against a British private investigations firm co-founded by Steele to continue.

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    1 year ago

    It will never cease to amaze me the mental gymnastics his supporters will go through to justify still supporting him, despite his numerous blatant abuses of classified and sensitive information, just years after regularly chanting that his opponent should be jailed when there was no evidence she had violated any law.