On Friday, Judge Arthur Engoron imposed a $5000 fine on President Trump for violating the gag order issued in the fraud trial headed by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The case seeks to obtain $250 million in ‘damages’ without any victims being present, and also aims to prohibit Trump and his sons from conducting business operations within the state of New York.
Trump had previously criticized Engoron’s Principal Law Clerk, Allison Greenfield, for posing for a photograph with Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer. On October 3rd he declared the incident “disgraceful”.
In response to this comment, Engoron threatened to imprison the President if his campaign failed to delete a social media post that mentioned Greenfield. Ultimately, this violation resulted in the judge imposing a fine on Trump.
#Breaking News: Judge Arthur Engoron has threatened to imprison President Donald Trump if he can’t provide a valid reason for breaking the partial gag order.
Trump made a post saying that a law clerk was a girlfriend of Chuck Schumer and even provided pictures. Engoron… pic.twitter.com/XIvR04yxY2
— 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸 (@Travis_in_Flint) October 20, 2023
Trump’s lawyers were informed by Engoron that the social media post had been removed.
The judge sternly admonished Trump and cautioned him twice of the potential consequences for disregarding the gag order, including imprisonment.
BREAKING: Donald Trump was just fined $5,000 by a New York judge for breaking a gag order that prohibited him from discussing court staff. The judge also warned him twice about the possibility of going to jail for this violation.
“Donald Trump has received ample warning from… pic.twitter.com/scheQXg4wL
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) October 20, 2023
Excerpt from CBS News:
The judge in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial lashed out at him this morning for failing to remove from his campaign website a derogatory post about the judge’s clerk.
The post, which was spotted Thursday by the pro-democracy news website MeidasTouch, was a duplicate of one posted to Trump’s social media site on Oct. 3, and deleted soon after New York Judge Arthur Engoron issued a limited gag order, barring Trump from posting or speaking publicly about the judge’s staff.
The campaign replication of the deleted post has since also been removed, but Engoron appeared quite angry Friday.
Trump attorney Christopher Kise apologized and said it was an errant oversight, arguing that it was “truly inadvertent,” due to the presidential campaign’s “machinery” replicating the post on its website. Kise said there haven’t been any subsequent postings about the clerk or other court staff.
Kise said there haven’t been any subsequent postings about the clerk or other court staff.
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