A New York judge on Friday ordered Donald Trump to pay The New York
Times and three of its reporters nearly $400,000 to cover their legal
costs for a lawsuit filed by the former president that was dismissed
last year.

Trump sued the Times and the reporters over a 2018 investigation into
his finances and taxes that was based in part on confidential tax
records. The resulting series of articles won a Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in American journalism, in the category of explanatory reporting.

Among those articles was one titled, “Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax
Schemes as He Reaped Riches from His Father.”

Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha, in a statement to CNBC, said the
order for legal costs issued in Manhattan Supreme Court “shows that the state’s newly amended anti-SLAPP statute can be a powerful force for protecting press freedom.”

“The court has sent a message to those who want to misuse the judicial
system to try to silence journalists,” said Rhoades Ha.

SLAPP is an acronym for “strategic lawsuit against public participation.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/12/trump-ordered-to-pay-new-york-times-reporters-over-lawsuit.html

The orange goon fraud mogul (also found liable for sexual abuse - no
surprise there) is getting it in the shorts himself. Of course, one
wonders what he'll pay the fine with when New York gets done with him.

HawHawHaw!

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