Judge orders Trump to send New York Times reporters a hefty check
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Donald Trump must pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to The New York
Times and three of its reporters, a judge ruled Friday. ... In the
Friday order, New York Judge Robert Reed wrote that the sum of
$392,638.69 is "reasonable" given the case's complexity.
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It was in October 2018 when the Times published one of the most
devastating reports I've ever seen. In the first real breakthrough on understanding Trump's controversial finances, the newspaper exposed
evidence of "outright fraud" and "dubious tax schemes" that the
Republican exploited to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from
his father.
The findings painted a picture in which the then-president, far from
the self-made man he pretends to be, relied heavily on legally dubious
family handouts. As regular readers may recall, it was the first of
three brutal reports on Trump's financial history, leaving little
doubt that he had spent much of his adult life meandering between
failures and fraudulent endeavors.
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Eventually, he responded to the reporting by filing a $100 million
lawsuit against the newspaper and its source -- his niece, Mary Trump
-- who helped expose him as a fraud. She responded to the litigation
at the time by saying, "I think he is a f------- loser."
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/judge-orders-trump-send-new-york-reporters-hefty-check-rcna133983
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