Stormy gets Trump's legal bill for frivolous lawsuit

Two months have passed since a judge dismissed Stormy Daniels' frivolous defamation lawsuit against President Trump. He ruled that the porn performer must now fork over Trump's legal fees and the president's attorneys have delivered the bill.

This might mean that Daniels and her weasel whisperer lawyer, Michael Avenatti, will not be on the best of terms.

In a Los Angeles federal court on Monday, the president's lawyers said they've billed over 500 hours of work at rates as much as $840 an hour, according to an NBC report. The total legal costs for Daniels comes to $340,000.

Trump's legal team explained that the reason for so many hours is due to Avenatti's public antics. When the accusations began against Trump, Avenatti seemed to have a tent pitched at both CNN and MSNBC. In just two months, the creep racked up over 100 appearances between the two leftist networks.

"This action is virtually unprecedented in American legal history," wrote lead attorney Charles Harder in the filing, NBC notes. Stormy Daniels (whose real name is Stephanie Cliffords) not only brought the "meritless" claim against the sitting President of the United States, "she also has engaged, along with her attorney, in massive national publicity," including the fact that she gave her strip tour a name which referenced the president's "Make America Great Again" with "Making America Horny Again", and writing a memoir, all of which the media coverage helped promote.

Avenatti called the fees "staggering and grossly inflated" Monday, insisting that they should not exceed $25,000, NBC reports. Of course, Avenatti would have charged much more than Trump's team if the shoe was on the other foot.

Daniels told The Daily Beast that the defamation lawsuit filed by Avenatti, was done so against her wishes. The suit revolved around a Trump tweet in response to Daniels and Avenatti showing a composite sketch of a man she claims threatened her on Trump's behalf in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2013. This occurred when she was telling her story to a publication about her alleged one-night affair with Trump.

Avenatti then had a big media build-up to which Trump responded on Twitter: "A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!"

The "goon" and Daniels' ex-husband

So Daniels sued Trump for defamation over the "con job" comment, a lawsuit she told the Daily Beast last week was Michael Avenatti's idea.

"I'm tremendously grateful to him for aggressively representing me in my fight to regain my voice," she said in a statement. "But in other ways Michael has not treated me with the respect and deference an attorney should show to a client. He has spoken on my behalf without my approval. He filed a defamation case against Donald Trump against my wishes."

If this is true, Avenatti may be in big trouble.

In a ruling in October, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero agreed with President Trump that the lawsuit was frivolous. "The court agrees with Mr. Trump’s argument because the tweet in question constitutes ‘rhetorical hyperbole’ normally associated with politics and public discourse in the U.S.," said Judge Otero. "The First Amendment protects this type of rhetorical statement."

The "porn star and the president" saga began with Michael Cohen's payment of $130,000 in "hush money" to Daniels before the election in 2016 in exchange for her signing a non-disclosure agreement she has since broken and claims was null and void because Trump never signed it. In one of his multiple plea deals, Cohen said he knowingly violated campaign finance law to cover up Trump's alleged affair.

But in any case, Michael Cohen is in big trouble.


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