{"id":305821,"date":"2023-04-05T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/05\/stormy-daniels-ordered-to-pay-trump-legal-fees-after-losing-defamation-case\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T04:52:00","slug":"stormy-daniels-ordered-to-pay-trump-legal-fees-after-losing-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/05\/stormy-daniels-ordered-to-pay-trump-legal-fees-after-losing-defamation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormy Daniels Ordered To Pay Trump Legal Fees After Losing Defamation Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Stormy Daniels Ordered To Pay Trump Legal Fees After Losing Defamation Case\" alt=\"Stormy Daniels Ordered To Pay Trump Legal Fees After Losing Defamation Case\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2019-01\/pfipnm7c_stormy-daniels-reuters_625x300_15_January_19.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former US President Donald Trump secured a legal victory against adult film star Stormy Daniels. Ms Daniels was ordered to pay more than $121,000 to the attorneys of Trump, by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in California. Ms Daniels had lost a defamation case against him.<\/p>\n<p>The adult film star is already paying over $500,000 in court-ordered payments to Trump attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>She had filed and lost a defamation suit against the former president.<\/p>\n<p>The order was delivered on the same day that a Manhattan court arraigned Trump on 34 charges related to alleged hush money payments to Daniels to cover up a purported affair between the two, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/04\/politics\/stormy-daniels-pay-trump-legal-fees\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN <\/a>reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the alleged payments. It&#8217;s the first time a former US president has faced criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Trump attorney Harmeet Dhillon of the Dhillon Law Group took to Twitter and shared a copy of the order. She wrote, &#8220;Congratulations to President Trump on this final attorney fee victory in his favor this morning.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congratulations to President Trump on this final attorney fee victory in his favor this morning. Collectively, our firm obtained over $600,000 in attorney fee awards in his favor in the meritless litigation initiated by Stormy Daniels. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ld7SVvZOp6\">https:\/\/t.co\/ld7SVvZOp6<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1b5P3flxFb\">pic.twitter.com\/1b5P3flxFb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnjaban\/status\/1643331602511011848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The civil litigation is officially unrelated to Trump&#8217;s arrest and charges filed against him in New York &#8212; but both involved Daniels, who was paid USD 130,000 in hush money during the 2016 presidential campaign to keep quiet about an affair. Trump denies the affair, reported CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels sued Trump in 2018 after Trump in a tweet called an allegation by Daniels that an unknown man threatened her in a parking lot to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump a &#8220;total con job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing the lawsuit in October 2018, federal Judge S James Otero said Trump&#8217;s statement was protected by the First Amendment, reported CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Court agrees with Mr Trump&#8217;s argument because the tweet in question constitutes &#8216;rhetorical hyperbole&#8217; normally associated with politics and public discourse in the United States. The First Amendment protects this type of rhetorical statement,&#8221; Otero wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Otero later ordered Daniels to pay roughly USD 293,000 in legal fees. Daniels was also ordered to pay another USD 245,000 in fees after losing another appeal, reported CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, had asked the appeals court to knock down another award. The court declined her request.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clifford&#8217;s argument that the fee request is unreasonable and excessive is not well-founded,&#8221; the 9th Circuit filing states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump&#8217;s attorneys reasonably spent the requested 183.35 hours preparing a motion to dismiss, a reply to the opposition to the motion, two extension motions, the answering brief, and the fee application,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2022, Daniels said she would &#8220;go to jail&#8221; before paying a penny to Trump after a failed defamation suit filed by Daniels&#8217; former lawyer, Michael Avenatti.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/stormy-daniels-ordered-to-pay-trump-legal-fees-after-losing-defamation-case-3921472\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records Former US President Donald Trump secured a legal victory against adult film star Stormy Daniels. Ms Daniels was ordered to pay more than $121,000 to the attorneys of Trump, by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in California. 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