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Before testimony resumed in the Hush Trump trial in New York City, the judge ruled on the first bunch of prosecutor-driven complaints about how the former president and current 2024 presidential candidate broke his gag order. The judge found that Donald Trump had indeed broken his gag order and then fined him the maximum amount per violation.
Prosecutors filed complaints in three different groupings for a total of 14 charges of breaking what is widely believed by constitutional lawyers to be illegal and unconstitutional gagging of a defendant. This first tranche was from Trump’s TruthSocial accounts. See the list of his contretemps below.
In today’s ruling, Trump was found in contempt for nine statements he made on his social media site for a total of a $9,000 fine.
Judge Juan Merchan told Trump that if he kept doing it he’d consider locking him up, or as the Joe Biden donor put it in his order:
Defendant is hereby warned that the Court will not tolerate willful violations of its lawful orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an incarceratory punishment.
Quickly, here are the nine violations of the order according to Judge Mechan:
Saying „thank you“ to Michael Avenatti for Avenatti’s comments on the gag order. From ABC News:
„We can’t be hypocrites when it comes to the 1st Amendment,“ Avenatti wrote.
