Adult film actress Stormy Daniels has been ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in attorney fees, costs, and sanctions to former President Donald Trump after a federal appeals court rejected her bid to overturn a lower court decision regarding a defamation lawsuit brought against him in 2018. Trump announced the news in a statement on March 21 where he also took aim at Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who was convicted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in February. The latest ruling was issued by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. “The 9th Circuit just issued a final ruling in the Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels) frivolous lawsuit case against me bought by her disgraced lawyer, Michael Avenatti, upholding the lower ruling that she owes me nearly $300,000 in attorney fees, costs, and sanctions (not including appeal costs),” Trump said. Daniels has claimed that she had a one-night affair with Trump in 2006 and that she was …