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Trump Asks Judge To Make Stormy Daniels Pay Twice For Frivolous Lawsuit

John Bickley

Stormy Daniels and her Democratic presidential hopeful attorney Michael Avenatti were undoubtedly anticipating an “excessive” bill from President Trump’s legal team on Monday, but, as Avenatti’s response indicates, they didn’t see Trump’s lawyers’ additional punitive request coming.

In a move Avenatti is calling “absolutely absurd and outrageous,” Trump’s legal team has not only submitted a $340,000 bill for legal fees for the defamation lawsuit filed by Daniels that was dismissed in October, they’re asking the judge to hit the president’s porn star accuser with a double bill as punishment for her frivolous suit, coming to a grand total of $778,806.

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