A New York jury has decided that Donald Trump must pay $83.3 million (£65 million) for defaming columnist E Jean Carroll in 2019 while serving as president of the United States.
The civil trial punishment consists of $18.3 million for compensatory damages and $65 million for punitive penalties.
Mr Trump was judged in a previous legal action to have defamed Ms Carroll and sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
He pledged to contest the new ruling, calling the case a witch hunt and the verdict "absolutely ridiculous".
In the most recent trial, the jury was only asked to determine how much compensation, if any, should be granted to Ms Carroll.
The compensatory harms are intended to represent the damage that the jury found his remarks had done to her standing and close to home prosperity.
The board likewise needed to think of a correctional punishment planned to prevent Mr Trump from proceeding to take a stand in opposition to her.
It took the jury of seven men and two ladies under three hours to arrive at a decision on Friday evening.
Mr Trump, who looks prone to be the conservative up-and-comer in November's official political decision, likewise faces four lawbreaker cases for a sum of 91 crime counts.
He is the first president in Quite a while history to be accused of a wrongdoing, however has argued not liable or denied every one of the charges.
"This is an extraordinary triumph for each lady who stands up when she's been wrecked, and a colossal loss for each harasser who has attempted to hold a lady down," Ms Carroll said in an explanation after the jury's choice on Friday.
Her lawyer, Robbie Kaplan, said in an explanation: "The present decision demonstrates that the law applies to everybody in our nation, even the rich, even the well known, much previous presidents."
Mr Trump has over and again denied any bad behavior, or even that he has at any point met Ms Carroll, remembering for Friday morning.
Yet, following the decision he shunned going after her straightforwardly when he pummeled the result of the case in a post on his web-based entertainment stage, Truth Social.
"I completely can't help contradicting the two decisions," he expressed, "and will be engaging this entire Biden Coordinated Witch Chase zeroed in on me and the Conservative Faction.
"Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon. They have taken away all First Amendment Rights. THIS IS NOT AMERICA!"
A common preliminary last year found Mr Trump physically attacked Ms Carroll, a magazine journalist, in a Bergdorf Goodman retail chain changing area during the 1990s.
That jury likewise found him responsible for criticism for calling her allegations an untruth - and he was requested to pay her about $5m in penalties.
The case that finished on Friday zeroed in on various abusive remarks by Mr Trump in 2019.
Ms Carroll still can't seem to get any cash from Mr Trump.
The previous president has paid a store to the court while the allure interaction on the main slander suit works out, previous government examiner Mitch Epner said.
Similar principles will apply to these a lot higher harms, Mr Epner added, where Mr Trump should provide an extra $83.3m - in one or the other money or an allure security - as a store.
Mr Trump, who suddenly left court before in the day with his Mystery Administration security detail, was absent to hear the decision.
His takeoff came minutes after Judge Kaplan took steps to prison Mr Trump's legal advisor, Alina Habba, for proceeding to talk after he had advised her to hush up.
"You are on the verge of spending some time in the lockup. Now sit down," he told Trump's trial lawyer Ms. Alina Habba.
The appointed authority had taken steps to discharge Mr Trump prior after he murmured about the case being a "con work" and a "witch chase" in court. Before the decision was perused, the adjudicator cautioned: "We will have no explosions."
During shutting contentions prior on Friday, a legal counselor for Ms Carroll told the court her standing had been seriously hurt by the previous president's remarks denying he physically attacked her.
"This case is additionally about rebuffing Donald Trump... This preliminary is tied in with inspiring him to stop for the last time," she said.
Ms Carroll's lawyers recently let the court know that Mr Trump's assertions released a downpour of death dangers, assault dangers, and online hostility towards her.
Mr Trump's legal advisor had contended that he ought to pay no further harms to Ms Carroll as her cases have "a larger number of openings than Swiss cheddar".
Ms Habba said that her client was not to fault for the dangers that Ms Carroll got.
Prior in the preliminary Adjudicator Lewis Kaplan (no connection of the offended party's legal counselor) prompted hearers not to utilize their genuine names with one another because of the delicate idea of the case.
As it finished up, he encouraged them that they were allowed to examine their experience. Yet, he added that as he would like to think they shouldn't tell anybody they chipped away at this case.
Mr Trump has over and over guaranteed the different legitimate cases he faces are being organized by partners of US President Joe Biden, a liberal.
As the conservative faction's White House leader, Mr Trump looks set for a rematch against Mr Biden in the November 2024 general political decision.
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