Watch: Judge fines Trump more than $300 million, bars him from running businesses in New York for three years

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : And I hope the public is watching it," Trump said.
45% : Trump wasn't required to be in court, except for the one day he testified, but he showed up eight times as a spectator.
37% : Judge Arthur Engoron ordered the former president and the Trump Organization to pay over $300 million in damages, and bars Trump "from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years.
36% : "The stiff penalty was a victory for New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, who sued Trump over what she said was not just harmless bragging but years of deceptive practices as he built the multinational collection of skyscrapers, golf courses and other properties that catapulted him to wealth, fame and the White House.
35% : Engoron had already found last year that Trump committed years of fraud by lying about his riches on financial statements with tricks like claiming his Trump Tower penthouse was nearly three times its actual size.
35% : It included testimony from Trump himself, as well as this three oldest children, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump.
34% : In December, the judge suggested he's inclined to find Trump and his co-defendants liable on at least some claims.
33% : Trump denies any wrongdoing and has claimed that the financial documents actually understated his net worth and came with caveats that should shield him from liability.
28% : The civil lawsuit from James accused Trump of inflating his net worth by billions of dollars on financial statements that he then used to secure business loans, insurance and to make deals.
24% : James was seeking $370 million in fines and to ban Trump from conducting any future business in the New York real estate industry.
18% : After Trump made a false, disparaging comment about the clerk's personal life on social media, Engoron imposed a gag order barring trial participants from commenting further about court staff.
8% : The judge had already found last year that Trump committed years of fraud by lying about his riches on financial statementsThe judge who presided over a civil business fraud trial against Donald Trump and his company has issued his decision in the case, NBC News reported.

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