Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the centre of the "hush money payment" case, has been requested by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in California to pay more than $121,000 to the counsel of Donald Trump as the story of his indictment and arraignment plays out.
Daniels' defamation lawsuit against Trump's lawyers was unsuccessful. The court-ordered payments totaling more than $500,000 that Daniels has been asked to give to the Trump counsel are in addition to this.Stormy Daniels, a porn star, attempted to defame Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican nomination in the US presidential elections of 2024, but she was unsuccessful.
There are 34 accusations of falsifying company paperwork against Trump related to the purported payments. For the first time, an ex-president of the United States is being charged. Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney for Trump with the Dhillon Law Group, posted a copy of the order on Twitter. Congratulations to President Trump on this morning's decisive attorney fee victory, she wrote.
Although Daniels, who received USD 130,000 in hush money during the 2016 campaign to keep quiet about an affair, was engaged in both the civil litigation and Trump's arrest and charges brought against him in New York, they are not officially connected. Infidelity is denied by Trump.
In 2018, Daniels filed a lawsuit against Trump after the latter referred to a claim by Daniels that she had been threatened in a parking lot by an unidentified man to keep quiet about her alleged liaison with him as a "total con job" in a tweet.Federal Judge S. James Otero dismissed the case in October 2018 and cited the First Amendment to support Trump's claim.
The Court concurs with Trump's claim because the disputed tweet exhibits "rhetorical hyperbole," which is frequently used in American politics and public debate. This kind of rhetorical statement is protected by the First Amendment, according to Otero at the time.Daniels was eventually required to pay Otero around USD 293,000 in legal fees. After losing yet another appeal, Daniels was also required to pay an additional USD 245,000 in fees.
According to the filing with the 9th Circuit, "Clifford's contention that the fee request is exorbitant and excessive is not well-founded."According to the statement, "Trump's counsel legitimately expended the required 183.35 hours drafting a motion to dismiss, a response to the objection to the motion, two extension motions, the reply brief, and the fee application."
After an unsuccessful defamation suit by Daniels' former attorney, Michael Avenatti, was launched, Daniels declared in March 2022 that she would "go to jail" before paying a dime to Trump.
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