Judge Engoron’s gag order against Trump was reinstated on Thursday. It didn’t keep him from continuing his attacks on Engoron’s wife, as it only applies to court employees.
Donald Trump spent Wednesday “unleashing a torrent of grievances, vengeful promises and links to online conspiracy theories about his political rivals” on Truth Social, as Axios reported. Six of those posts attacked the wife of New York Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over Trump’s civil fraud trial. On Thursday morning, Engoron’s gag order against Trump was reinstated.
If you just skimmed the headlines, or were perhaps being willfully ignorant, you might think the first event caused the second. The timing actually appears coincidental, and the gag order couldn’t stop Trump’s tirade about Dawn Engoron — both literally, as it does not apply to Engoron and his family, and figuratively, as Trump has already shown he won’t let fines get in the way of a good vindictive rant.
Judge Engoron imposed the gag order on October 3 after Trump repeatedly targeted his law clerk by name on social media.
