Former President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay nearly half a million dollars to The New York Times to cover legal fees involved in a lawsuit he filed against them, Times reporter Susanne Craig revealed Friday. The lawsuit, which was filed against The Times, Craig and her fellow reporters David Barstow and Russ Buettner, along with the ex-president’s niece Mary Trump, alleged that the paper conspired in an “insidious plot” to obtain Trump’s tax returns. That suit was thrown out last year, with New York State Justice Robert Reed saying the allegations “fail as a matter of constitutional l…