How much money could Donald Trump end up paying out in damages?
Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, has enjoyed a dominant start to the year in the GOP primaries, picking up comfortable wins in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada as all but one of his challengers has fallen away, leaving his victory little more than a formality unless Nikki Haley can conjure a dramatic upset against the odds.
It has been a rather different story in the courts, however.
Mr Trump has four criminal indictments and 91 felony charges hanging over his head and remains caught up in a complex web of legal entanglements, any one of which poses a potential threat to his candidacy and one of which has already delivered a financial bombshell that left the candidate reeling.
On Friday 26 January, a New York to retired magazine columnist in compensation for having , the amount intended to deter him from using his public platform to lash out at those he believes have wronged him, as he currently does on a near-daily basis.
