Former President Donald Trump must pay The New York Times and three of its reporters hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, a judge ordered last week.
The ruling was the latest development in Trump’s $100 million lawsuit accusing the newspaper, its journalists — Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner — and his estranged niece Mary Trump of engaging in an “insidious plot” to obtain his confidential tax information for a series that was published in 2018.
New York Judge Robert Reed, who dismissed the Times and reporters from the suit in May in a judgment citing First Amendment protections, said in an order that a “complexity of issues” warranted Trump cover nearly $400,000 in attorney’s fees, legal expenses, and costs.
Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoads Ha issued a celebratory statement heralding the decision as showing how the expanded anti-SLAPP law…
