Trump ordered to pay New York Times nearly $400k in legal fees for ‘frivolous’ lawsuit

by newnemo

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  1. >A judge in New York has ordered Donald Trump to fork over nearly $400,000 in legal fees underpinning a now-dismissed lawsuit he brought against the newspaper and a trio of its reporters when they published a bombshell series of reports on his history of tax schemes and “riches” reaped from his father.

    >The claim from Trump was dismissed by a New York Supreme Court judge last May, who found that reporters were “entitled to engage in legal and ordinary news-gathering activities without fear or tort liability — as their actions are at the very core of protected first amendment activity.”

  2. The Times will need to take him to court to get him to pay, and if he ever does, it’ll be with someone else’s money.

  3. Guess he’s going to have to join Giuliani in selling all his upper Manhattan properties.

    Oh well, anyway.

  4. Donald Trump should be nicknamed “Tyson” because he has so many hens coming home to roost.

  5. One one hand, $400k isn’t a lot to him. On the other, given how he has spoken in the past, he won’t simply pay it, he’ll just whine, claim it’s unfair and how people are after “his” money.

  6. He should be ordered to pay for protection services for all the people he sics his cult on

  7. He was right about “so much winning”, but the winning is everyone around him winning their lawsuits against him. He was wrong though I never get tired of everyone else winning against him. Keep suing and losing #DiaperDon.

  8. Filed in September 2021. Hilarious coincidence in timing the resolution.

  9. “Mr First Amendment” sues reporters for just doing their jobs protected by <checks notes> the First Amendment.

  10. I’m surprised Donnie hasn’t made like a Trump version of PayPal that basically skims cash directly from people.

  11. Just get the idiots who don’t believe dinosaurs existed to pay for it like always

  12. I know his tired of winning with the best. Fucking clown

  13. More of this and bigger fines.

    Not just because it’s Trump, that’s only a silver lining in this instance, but moreso because SLAPP lawsuits are the rich using the legal system as a weapon to silence reasonable criticism or worse.

  14. His ‘constituents’ will be paying this. No him.

  15. While it’s more than likely not going to be a singular cent from his own pocket but the pockets of the people he’s grifting from. Either way it’s robbing the RNC of a substantial amount of money. Small victories like this are exactly what we need to put the alt right out of business for good

  16. Cue him doing another fundraiser and making his supporters pay for it.

  17. Look at this fucking picture. This is the alpha male people are dying for.

  18. This lawsuit smells like BS.

    Sorry sir that’s just my client.

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