Judge Orders Stormy Daniels To Pay Trump $293,000 In Attorneys’ Fees, Sanctions

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered porn star Stormy Daniels to pay President Donald Trump more than $292,000 in attorneys’ fees and another $1,000 in sanctions in connection with her dismissed defamation suit against Trump.

That was much less than the nearly $800,000 in legal fees and sanctions that Trump’s lawyer Charles Harder asked for earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

But Harder in a statement Tuesday said that Daniels was ordered to pay amount to 75 percent of Trump’s legal fees. And he crowed that the $1,000 in sanctions are for her filing “meritless” defamation action.

That defamation suit came in response to a Trump tweet that all but called Daniels for claiming she was menaced by a man seeking to keep her quiet about a sexual tryst with the president.

“The court’s order, along with the court’s prior order dismissing Stormy Daniels’ defamation case against the President, together constitute a total victory for the President, and a total defeat for Stormy Daniels in this case.”