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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
One should note that American Left is literally only left by weird American standards.
Literally everyone outside Land of the free will tell you Dems are moderate rights, and the truth is super far from "between Dems and Reps".
America hasn't seen a healthy political debate since the Red Scare. With the real left eradicated and members of any left organizations, let alone past or current member of the communist parties, becoming essentially enemies of the state, politicians felt comfortable instating that Dems are "actually left", so as to gradually put real left to serve a slightly leftier flavor of capitalists.
And as such, you don't see the actual unbiased debate you expect. You see two kinds of right-wingers debating how right America should go.
Real "unbiased" center, by international standards, is more left than Democrats, even. It's around Bernie Sanders.
And the left is about dismantling capitalism and building a real socialist state. Like, USSR socialist, not Sweden "socialist".
We just gotta agree to disagree on the comment about two right wingers debating how right America should go and that the left is eradicated. I see people all the time wanting to bring down capitalism in favor of guaranteed healthcare and income, etc.
Universal healthcare doesn't "bring down capitalism" and doesn't mean socialism. It's just a norm of civilized capitalist world, one of the achievements of the working class that became entrenched in policies. Same for guaranteed income. All good policies, but can absolutely exist in a non-socialist world.
Socialism is characterized by common ownership of the means of production, i.e. all the big businesses go away and the control of industries is public, either through government or worker's cooperatives.
Neither Democrats nor Republicans offer anything close.
(Socialist political groups can advocate for things such as universal healthcare/UBI/etc, but their endgoal has to be the eradication of private property)