When all is said and done, Daniels could owe the former president more than a half million dollars in legal fees.
's camp likely welcomed some positive news after spending Tuesday afternoon in a Manhattan courtroom.
He didn't have to wait long. At the same time Trump and his legal team prepared their defense, Trump's attorneys on the other side of the country in California learned Daniels—the star witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case—might owe him some money. A lot of it. Shortly after the allegations of hush money became public, Daniels filed a defamation suit against then-President Donald Trump after he posted a tweet questioning Daniels' story of being threatened to keep quiet about an alleged affair between them.
Former President Donald Trump, left, and Stormy Daniels, right, are pictured. On a rough day for the ex-president, he did win a legal battle stemming from a California lawsuit filed against him by Daniels. The court ruled that Trump was merely expressing his opinion in a tweet, ordering Daniels to reimburse the former president $300,000 in legal fees.Daniels—then working with disgraced attorney
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