President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, retracting security clearances and revoking Perkins COIE's access to certain federal resources. It was the law firm that hired a company responsible for creating a so-called “steel deja,” which contains sleazy material on the connections that the president denied with Russia.
“This is an absolute honour to sign,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “What they did, it's terrible. It's weaponization. You could say it's weaponization against a political enemy.
President Donald Trump will speak at his Oval Office on March 6, 2025, on the day he signs an executive order at the White House in Washington, DC. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
Specifically, the executive order will suspend security clearance for Perkins Coie employees until further reviews assessing access to confidential information are completed to determine whether it is consistent with national interests.
Additionally, the order will block access to sensitive information facilities for Perkins Coie employees and limit access to government employees. The order also involves hiring employees of Perkins Coie without specific permission.
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Similarly, the federal government is prohibited from hiring contractors who use law firms.
Perkins Coie told Fox News Digital that it reviewed the executive order.
“It's patentably illegal and we're going to try it,” a company spokesperson said in an email Thursday.
The international law firm represented Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee in the 2016 election, and President Trump represented former President Joe Biden after challenging Biden's victory in the 2020 election.
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Perkins Koy was first scrutinized after he hired opposition investigator Fusion GPS in April 2016 to conduct opposition research firms on behalf of Trump's opponents Clinton and the Democratic National Committee to conduct opposition research on presidential candidate Trump.
Fusion GPS hired former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who composed the so-called “Steele Dossier.” The document contained scandalous, almost unverified allegations, including details of Trump's engagement in sexual activity with a Russian prostitute.
Perkins Coie hired an opposition investigator, which led to former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. (Getty Images)
Trump repeatedly denied allegations contained in the documents and filed a lawsuit against Orbis Business Intelligence, Steel co-founded it. Trump's legal team allegedly “suffered personal and reputational damage and pain” as a result of the documents, but a London judge proposed a lawsuit in February 2024.
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The document was first published in 2017, when it was published by BuzzFeed News. Justice Department inspectors denounced the agency and the FBI for using the document to secure an oversight application for former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page as part of an agency's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Still, the inspectors determined that there was no political bias that motivated the page to monitor or launch a Russian investigation.
