Judge orders Stormy Daniels to pay Trump $293K in legal fees

[babylonsister]

Judge orders Stormy Daniels to pay Trump $293K in legal fees
Avery Anapol
1 hr ago


U.S. District Judge James Otero ordered Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, to pay the fees in her defamation case against Trump, which Otero dismissed in October.

Daniels alleged that Trump defamed her in an April tweet that mocked her claims that a man threatened her in 2011 to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump.

Shortly after Daniels and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, released a forensic sketch of the man who allegedly threatened her, Trump posted a side-by-side photo suggesting that the man was Daniels's ex-husband.

After the defamation case failed, Trump's attorneys had requested that Daniels pay them $340,000 in legal fees.

Otero, writing that Trump's attorneys spent "excessive" time on the case, ordered Daniels to pay about 75 percent of Trump's legal fees, plus an additional $1,000 in sanctions.

Trump's attorney, Charles Harder, praised Tuesday's decision as "a total victory for the President, and a total defeat for Stormy Daniels in this case."

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[manor321]

1. Response

Link to tweet

My client will never have to pay a dime. Not one penny. It is the end of the first quarter, not the end of the game. And if you actually read any of the filings in the NDA case, you would realize they are going to owe at least $1,500,000.

[jberryhill]

2. Delusional

I have read ALL of the filings in the NDA case. I have posted many of them here with analysis, and I suppose I should get around to an update before the January 22 hearing on the current motion to DISMISS the entire case.

Not only is he nowhere near winning a damned thing in that case, but the only action taking place right now is the current motion to dismiss the case entirely.

He's going to say what he has to say to keep the game going, but he's running out of runway and has a little more than a month left before this show might very well be over.