That's exactly what judge Kaplan did to Trump. Vigilante justice!!
And the jury were all goblins from Goblinworld who were put there to destroy Trump. Got it.
The jury awarded the damages, not the judge.
Here is what actually happened. Trump could probably have won the first trial. It was a credibility contest between him and EJC and the jury would have been skeptical of the long delay in bringing the lawsuit, her memory lapses and the fact that it probably started as a political stunt. But EJC must have come across ok on the stand. And then Trump refused to testify and defend himself.
So the jury was just left w EJC's version of the facts and - not unnaturally - found in her favour.
Not content with shooting his dick off once, Trump worsened his plight by repeating all the same defamatory statements about EJC right after the trial. Now it was already a legally established fact from the first trial that he sexually assaulted EJC (see above). So defamation was automatically established at law and it was just a question of setting punitive damages for Trump's high-handed behaviour.
Trump shot his dick off a third time by cross-examining EJC aggressively through the 2nd trial - even though defamation was already legally established - and by ranting and tantruming all through the 2nd trial and getting his incompetent and stupid lawyer to do the same. The jury saw all that and hated him more and more.
So all that adds up to $83.3M. You have to be a senile, drugged-up narcissistic poltroon to fuck up a case so spectacularly like that. But that's Trump for you. And - have no doubt! - this was 90% his shit, not Habba's, although he will blame her for it.
He will continue to fuck up like this in his other trials because he is dim-witted, arrogant, drugged-out, senile and narcissistic and totally incompetent. He should be parked at a corner table at Mar-a-Lago telling boring bullshit golf stories to other old men, like all the other drooling, senile, old grandads and uncles. He is utterly incompetent to run his own affairs at this point in his life, let alone have a political career.