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That's way above the "tens of millions" that some commentators were predicting based off the filings - maybe they didn't include the punitive damages? Or did the judge cause a surprise with the number?
The jury decided the numbers. Tbh the actual damages seem high for the defamation. I'm not sure how they proved they had direct financial or reputational damage of over $16M each. The emotional distress is also high at $20M each, but tbh this shit did put them through hell so I could see that.
The jury decided the punitive damages should be, well...punitive. They added $100 million on to the requested compensatory damages because clearly they wanted to drive home the point that lying, scumbag, decrepit, pieces of human garbage who try to justify overthrowing the government by claiming fraud and then blaming that fraud on random election workers should get fucked for life.
"please decide an amount that would prevent anyone in a similar situation as the defendant from doing this again"
(defendent literally repeats the defamatory statement at the entrance to the courtroom)
Jury: "well shit. we need to exponentiate this dollar value"
Yeah they aren't give the fair market price here. There's a healthy "don't do it again" margin
I think if they want, they ought to be able to afford bodyguards for the next 10-20 years to regain a sense of security after the hell they've been through.
I dunno, they're gonna need to invest in a lot of security to ever be comfortable again. It's not like there's any other remedy, you can't call off a lunatic cult after you've sicced them on someone.