DNC, Perkins Coie Sued by Ex-Trump Campaign Aide Carter Page (1)

Carter Page, a former campaign foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump, sued the Democratic National Committee and its attorneys at Perkins Coie for defamation over fallout from the so-called “Steele Dossier.”

The DNC and Perkins Coie attorneys paid Washington-based Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Page and the 2016 Trump campaign, and then leaked false accusations to the public, the complaint alleges.

They “hired Fusion GPS not to report the truth, but to create dirt,” it says.

The allegations in the unsubstantiated dossier were the basis for invalid federal surveillance warrants against Page with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, ...