{"id":17429,"date":"2026-01-08T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-asks-judge-to-award6minlegal-billsforfailed-georgia-prosecution\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:21:03","slug":"trump-asks-judge-to-award6minlegal-billsforfailed-georgia-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-asks-judge-to-award6minlegal-billsforfailed-georgia-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump asks judge to award$6Minlegal billsforfailed Georgia prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump asked a Georgia judge Wednesday&nbsp;to award&nbsp;him&nbsp;$6.26 million in&nbsp;attorney fees and costs&nbsp;he incurred&nbsp;defending against his&nbsp;now-dismissed&nbsp;criminal prosecution&nbsp;in the state.&nbsp; Trump&rsquo;s effort relies on a law Georgia legislators passed last year, which allows criminal defendants to recover their legal bills when their prosecutor is sidelined for improper conduct&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5677892-trump-legal-bill-georgia-case\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump asked a Georgia judge Wednesday&nbsp;to award&nbsp;him&nbsp;$6.26 million in&nbsp;attorney fees and costs&nbsp;he incurred&nbsp;defending against his&nbsp;now-dismissed&nbsp;criminal prosecution&nbsp;in the state.&nbsp; Trump&rsquo;s effort relies on a law Georgia legislators passed last year, which allows criminal defendants to recover their legal bills when their prosecutor is sidelined for improper conduct&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}