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Donald Trump Ordered To Pay Nearly $400,000 In Legal Fees To New York Times And Other Defendants After His Lawsuit Was Dismissed


Former President Donald Trump was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees and other costs to The New York Times and three reporters he had sued after they published a piece on his tax schemes.…

New York Supreme Court judge Robert R. Reed ordered the former president to pay $392,638.69 to the Times and the reporters, Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner. Last year, Reed dismissed Trump’s lawsuit against them, finding that the state’s anti-SLAPP law applied. Reed wrote that the attorneys fee amount was a “reasonable value for the legal services rendered,” given the complexities of the case, among other factors.

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