Trump Loses Another Financial Judgment

Donald Trump is getting crushed financially in court right now, and it just got a little worse.

The former president was ordered to pay the legal fees for the company behind the Steele Dossier.

On Thursday, Trump was ordered to pay $382,000.

Costs Mounting

Trump has been getting hammered in judgments against him over the last month.

Almost a month ago, Trump was ordered to pay author E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in a defamation suit.

Trump had blistered Carroll on Truth Social, but his rants came back to haunt him in this suit, with the deadline to pay the judgment fast approaching.

Trump appealed the case and asked for the financial payment to be delayed until after the appeals process played out, but Judge Kaplan told him to either pay the judgment by Monday or post bond.

Trump also lost his fraud case in New York, with a judge that exceeds more than $400 million with penalties, taxes, and fees tacked on, which are also accumulating at roughly $100,000 per day of the judgment not being paid.

The deadline to pay that judgment or post bond is also fast approaching.

Now Trump has to come up with an additional $382,000 to pay the company behind the Steele Dossier.

Trump has now lost the case both here in the United States, which was filed against Hillary Clinton and former FBI officials, as well as overseas.

Trump's attorney, Hugh Tomlinson, claimed the dossier “contained shocking and scandalous claims about the personal conduct of President Trump” that hurt his reputation.

Orbis, Steele’s company, claimed it was not at fault because the dossier was not published by Steele or the company, but rather leaked to Buzzfeed from another party.

Judge Karen Steyn dismissed the case outright, stating that it was bound to fail. Then, she awarded Steele the $382,000 judgment.

Trump was actually lucky on that front because Orbis claimed its legal bills for the case were $809,000, which Steyn stated was excessive since it was only a one-day case.

Regardless, Trump now gets to add that to the pile of steadily growing legal bills.