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You're close... Stormy Daniels, through disgraced former lawyer Michael Avenetti (hey, remember him??!?), sued Trump for defamation, not the other way around.
When that case failed, she was on the hook for Trump's legal fees, not for any defamation on her part.
$300,000, not $500,000, later reduced to $120,000.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168215663/trump-stormy-daniels-defamation-lawsuit
NPR isn't a very good source for news. They even recently had 25 year veteran reporter blow the whistle on them about how they've been reporting news since around 2015-16. They're completely one-sided similar to MSDNC, Rawstory, etc. Anytime a news organization doesn't allow healthy debate, I've quit using them as they're no more than propaganda now
NPR is one of the pre-eminent sources of US news, reliable and fact checked. If you're blind to that there is absolutely no hope for you.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/npr/
"Overall, we rate NPR (National Public Radio) Left-Center Biased based on story selection that leans slightly left and High for factual reporting due to thorough sourcing and accurate news reporting. (5/18/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 06/30/2023)"
Maybe it was at one time, but that changed. This is a reporter that's been there 25 years, and was ultimately let go for speaking out about it. Just like some of the other media outlets, they did anything they could to help stop Trump from getting elected and boost Bidens chance by burying the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/npr-whistleblower-uri-berliner-claims-colleagues-confidentially-agree-with-him-about-broadcaster-s-hard-left-bias/ar-BB1lpy5Y
Again, that doesn't change the basic factual nature of NPR.
You can argue bias all you want, but the basic facts are the basic facts and NPR gets it right.