- A New York judge on Friday ordered Trump to pay $453.5 million in penalties and interest over what he said was more than a decade of fraud.
- On Jan. 26, a federal jury awarded writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages in a defamation lawsuit she filed against the former president.
- Trump has vowed to appeal both verdicts.
Now that former President Donald Trump has been socked with a combined $536.8 million in losses from two massive courtroom defeats, the question is: Will his opponents ever see a dime of the money?
The Republican presidential front-runner and his business trust on Friday were ordered to pay $453.5 million in penalties and interest after a New York judge ruled Trump had spent years fraudulently inflating the value of real estate holdings, including his own Trump Tower penthouse and his private club in Florida.
And last month a federal jury in Manhattan ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll in a defamation case stemming from Carroll’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s.
Trump won’t ‘go gently’
Trump says both cases were political hit jobs aimed at stalling his steamroller campaign for the GOP nomination, and he’s vowed to appeal.
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“Donald Trump is going to fight this to the end and is going to try and delay and delay until the last possible moment,” said George Arzt, a veteran New York political…
