Trump ordered to pay nearly $400k in legal fees over failed lawsuit against The New York Times
The same New York state judge dismissed Trump's 2021 lawsuit against the paper and three of its journalists for their Pulitzer Prize-winning series on his finances.
A New York state judge on Friday ordered former President Donald Trump to pay The New York Times nearly $400,000 for legal fees stemming from a failed lawsuit he brought against the newspaper in 2021.
Justice Robert R. Reed of the state Supreme Court in New York County ordered Trump to pay attorneys’ fees, legal costs and expenses totaling almost $393,000, including $229,931 for the Times and journalists Susanne Craig and Russell Buettner, and $162,717 for David Barstow, a third journalist from the paper.
Trump's attorneys had opposed the dollar amount sought by the defendants, calling the figure "exorbitant, excessive and unreasonable."
Reed last year dismissed the $100 million lawsuit against the Times and three of its journalists over their Pulitzer Prize-winning series on Trump's undisclosed finances, published in 2018.
In 2021, Trump sued the paper, his estranged niece Mary Trump and others, alleging that his niece and the Times' journalists “engaged in an insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly-sensitive records which they exploited for their own benefit and utilized as a means of falsely legitimizing their publicized works.”
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