Friday, March 07, 2025

US_ Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Employees at Law Firm Associated With Steele Dossier

THE EPOCH TIMES

Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Employees at Law Firm Associated With Steele Dossier

The firm was paid by the DNC and Clinton campaign to hire Fusion GPS, which then hired former British spy Christopher Steele to conduct research into Trump.


President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on March 6, 2025. Alex Wong/Getty Images

By Jacob Burg
3/6/2025 Updated: 3/6/2025


President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 6 to suspend the security clearances for employees at a law firm that was involved in the controversial Steele dossier.

The order was among several that Trump signed in the Oval Office on March 6 that affected employees at Perkins Coie. In 2016, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) paid more than $1 million to the law firm, which used the money to hire opposition research company Fusion GPS.

That company then hired Christopher Steele, a retired British counterintelligence specialist, to compile research into allegations that Trump’s 2016 campaign had conspired with the Russian government to win the presidential election.

The White House accused Perkins Coie of engaging in “lawfare and the weaponization of government,” as well as “unlawful DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] practices.” The order suspends the firm’s security clearances and access to certain federal resources, while also launching a “holistic review of unlawful DEI practices at some of the nation’s largest law firms.”

While signing the order, Trump described the firm’s actions as “just terrible.”

“It’s weaponization. ... against a political opponent, and it should never be allowed to happen again,” he said, adding that the DEI review would target more than 15 different law firms.

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