Despite the entry of former US President Donald Trump into a legal battle in New York due to investigations related to his payment of money to buy the silence of pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, he achieved a legal victory once morest her in another aspect of the same case, but in another state.
Indictment of Trump.. How did the case develop?
Former US President Donald Trump appeared on Tuesday before a New York City court following the Manhattan District Attorney charged him with falsifying commercial records. The indictment hearing was the result of nearly five years of investigations and judicial follow-up.
Trump appeared before the US judiciary, on Tuesday, in a case that he paid $ 130,000 to Daniels before the presidential elections in 2016, and he pleaded innocent of all charges once morest him, but the Ninth Circuit in the US Court of Appeals in California ordered the actress to pay $ 120,000 to Trump in exchange for attorney’s fees. In the defamation lawsuit she filed once morest him and lost.
This amount is in addition to more than $500,000 that the court ordered her to pay, according to the statement “CNN”.
Daniels sued Trump in 2018 following he called her claim that she was threatened if she disclosed her relationship with Trump a “scam”.
The court dismissed the lawsuit in October 2018, holding that Trump’s statement was protected by the Constitution under the First Amendment.
The court later ordered the actress to pay regarding $293,000 in legal fees, and was also ordered to pay $245,000 following losing another appeal.
On Tuesday, the US Court of Appeals issued its final ruling, saying Trump’s lawyers “had spent more than 183 hours appealing the case.”
In all, the actress will pay Trump regarding $600,000, according to Harmit Dillon, Trump’s attorney.
“Congratulations to President Trump on this final victory. Collectively, our firm has won over $600,000 in attorneys’ fees in his meritless litigation,” Dillon tweeted Tuesday.
