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Judge Orders Stormy Daniels To Pay Trump's Legal Fees

A federal judge has ordered adult film star Stormy Daniels to pay President Donald Trump $293,052.33 in attorneys’ fees after her defamation lawsuit was tossed out in October

Trump's legal team had requested that Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, pay $340,000 to cover the legal fees, but U.S. District Judge James Otero, deemed that amount to be "excessive."

Daniels sued Trump after he sent out a tweet mocking her claims that a man had threatened her in 2011, and posted a sketch of the man suggesting it was her ex-husband. 

President Trump's lawyer, Charles Hader, called the ruling "a total victory for the President, and a total defeat for Stormy Daniels."

Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti reacted to the ruling on Twitter and said that it "will never hold up on appeal." 

Charles Harder and Trump deserve each other because they are both dishonest. If Stormy has to pay $300k to Trump in the defamation case (which will never hold up on appeal) and Trump has to pay Stormy $1,500,000 in the NDA case (net $1,200,000 to Stormy), how is this a Trump win?

Daniels is still involved in a lawsuit against Trump and his former attorney, Michael Cohen, in an attempt to lift a nondisclosure agreement about her alleged 2006 affair with the president. 

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