Associated Press
Stormy Daniels must pay nearly $122,000 of Donald Trump’s legal fees that were racked up in connection with the porn actor’s failed defamation lawsuit, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The decision in California came at about the same time that that Trump became the only ex-president to be charged with a crime. Trump pleaded not guilty in a New York City courtroom to a 34-count felony indictment accusing him falsifying business records in a scheme to hush up allegations of extramarital affairs with Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal that broke during his first White House run.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, alleges she had an affair with Trump in 2006 and was paid $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement days before the 2016 presidential election.
She sued him for defamation after he dismissed her claims of being threatened to keep quiet about the tryst as a “total con job.” A judge threw out the case in 2018.
On Tuesday, a commissioner for the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Trump’s attorneys “reasonably spent” more than 183 hours on an appeal of the case but denied a request for another $5,150 in other fees because it wasn’t itemized.
In all, Daniels has been ordered to pay more than $600,000 in Trump’s legal fees, tweeted Harmeet Dillon, one of his attorneys in the case.
That includes some $300,000 in attorney’s fees that Daniels previously was ordered to pay.
After a federal appeals court upheld that award last year, Daniels stated: “I will go to jail before I pay a penny.”
Messages seeking comment from her attorney, Oklahoma lawyer Clark Brewster, weren’t immediately returned after hours Tuesday.
2 comments
Earl Pitts American
April 5, 2023 at 8:32 am
Good morning America,
Leftists hate it when I, Earl Pitts American, do this it just makes their brains explode and at the same time reminds leftist’s of their more stupid things they have done over the years.
OK peeps here it is:
Lets rally conservatives to start a “Go Fund Me Page” for Stormy Daniels!!!
Remember lefties Rebecca Jones “Go Fund Me Page” sure you do.
Lets do it conservatives!!!!!!
Thank you America,,
Earl Pitts American
Family values flunky Bill McSewer
April 5, 2023 at 9:43 am
Never pays to court a high priced piece of azz. All this while he was married. What would Jesus do? Not that!
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