Donald Trump must pay The New York Times legal fees totaling almost $400,000

Former US President Donald Trump before the New York State Supreme Court regarding the civil lawsuit against the Trump Organization on January 11, 2024. Former US President Donald Trump in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, for the civil case against the Trump Organization, January 11, 2024. SHANNON STAPLETON / AFP

Former US President Donald Trump was ordered on Friday, January 12, to pay $392,638 (approximately 358,000 euros) to The New York Times and journalists of the daily in legal costs after his lawsuits against them were dismissed .

Donald Trump filed a complaint against The New York Times in September 2021, accusing three of the newspaper's journalists of an “insidious conspiracy” to obtain his tax records. They published a study in 2018 that won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.

In May 2023, a judge on the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court discharged the real estate mogul and ordered him to pay costs. In a new ruling on Friday, this judge found the amount of legal fees estimated by The New York Times to be “reasonable” and ordered Donald Trump to reimburse them in full at that amount.

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The investigation explained how the former promoter, who claims to have made it on his own, built his fortune. She asserted that Donald Trump actually received the current equivalent of $413 million from his father over several years, some of which was transferred through a shell company in order to avoid taxes.

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