Stormy Daniels ordered to pay Trump's $293,000 legal fees

A U.S.federal judge has ordered porn actressStormy Daniels to pay President Donald Trump nearly $293,000 US for his lawyers' fees and another $1,000 in sanctions after her defamation suit against the president was dismissed.

Judge S. James Otero made the order Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Trump's lawyer, Charles Harder, had asked for nearly $390,000 US.

Lawyer Michael Avenatti, who represents Daniels, tweeted that the order "will never hold up on appeal."

Daniels alleges she had an affair with Trump in 2006and was paid $130,000as part of a nondisclosure agreement days before the 2016 presidential election.

She sued him after he dismissed her claims of being threatened to keep quiet about the tryst as a "total con job."