Trump ordered to pay nearly $400k in legal fees over failed lawsuit against The New York Times

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : 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.
34% : 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.
25% : "The court has sent a message to those who want to misuse the judicial system to try to silence journalists," said Danielle Rhoades Ha.An attorney for Trump said Friday that the former president would pursue claims against Mary Trump.

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