Trump's Boasts About His Wealth Just Helped Him Lose $83 Million

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : The jury "is allowed to consider how much Donald Trump is worth,"legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained on MSNBC last week.
58% : Later, in closing arguments, Kaplan reminded the jury that Trump has claimed to be worth billions.
30% : Carroll has already beaten Trump in court once before.
28% : "Ironically, the New York Attorney General's lawsuit against Trump accuses him of manipulating the valuations of his properties, in some cases allegedly boosting them by outrageous amounts, in order to secure better terms on loans and other financial perks.
24% : Kaplan told the jury that Carroll deserved $12 million just to repair her reputation from the harm caused by Trump, and another $12 million for the emotional harm.
18% : "It will take an unusually high punitive damages award to have any hope of stopping Donald Trump," Kaplan said.
14% : That's how much Trump now owes writer E. Jean Carroll after a jury ruled in her favor in a massive defamation case, following Trump's derisive denials of Carroll's claim that he sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
14% : Moments after the damages were announced, Trump released a statement calling it "absolutely ridiculous!"
10% : On Thursday, Kaplan played a videotape for the jury of a Trump deposition given last year in another unrelated case -- the New York Attorney General's sweeping fraud lawsuit against Trump -- in which Trump said his Doral golf resort "could be worth $2.5 billion by itself."
10% : Last May, Trump lost a similar trial in which the jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her, and awarded her $5 million.

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