Trump Threatened With Imprisonment For ‘Blatant Violation’ Of Gag Order In Fraud Trial
The post Trump Threatened With Imprisonment For ‘Blatant Violation’ Of Gag Order In Fraud Trial appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Topline The judge overseeing the civil fraud trial against former President Donald Trump and his company threatened “serious sanctions” — including potential imprisonment — against the ex-president Friday after Trump appeared to violate the gag order barring him from speaking about the court’s staff, multiple outlets reported. Former President Donald Trump speaks as the court takes a lunch break during his civil fraud trial … [+] at New York State Supreme Court on October 17 in New York City. Getty Images Key Facts Judge Arthur Engoron imposed a gag order against parties in the case on October 3 that prohibited speaking publicly about the court’s staff, after Trump made a disparaging Truth Social post about one of Engoron’s clerks. The post was removed from Truth Social on October 3, hours after being posted and right before the gag order was issued, but stayed up on Trump’s website until Thursday night, right after reports on social media emerged that it was still online and the court emailed Trump to remove it. At the start of trial Friday, Engoron called the post being left up a “blatant violation of the gag order,” as quoted by the Messenger, and asked Trump’s lawyers to explain why it shouldn’t result in “serious sanctions,” including being held in contempt, fines or “possibly imprisoning him.” Trump attorney Christopher Kise told the judge that the post being left up was an “inadvertent” mistake due to Trump’s “very large [campaign] operation,” ABC News reports. Engoron said he would take the issue under advisement, but added he “want[s] to make clear that Donald Trump is still responsible for the large machine, even if it is a large machine,” according to ABC. Crucial Quote “Despite this clear order, last night I learned that the subject offending post was never removed from…
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Topline The judge overseeing the civil fraud trial against former President Donald Trump and his company threatened “serious sanctions” — including potential imprisonment — against the ex-president Friday after Trump appeared to violate the gag order barring him from speaking about the court’s staff, multiple outlets reported. Former President Donald Trump speaks as the court takes a lunch break during his civil fraud trial … [+] at New York State Supreme Court on October 17 in New York City. Getty Images Key Facts Judge Arthur Engoron imposed a gag order against parties in the case on October 3 that prohibited speaking publicly about the court’s staff, after Trump made a disparaging Truth Social post about one of Engoron’s clerks. The post was removed from Truth Social on October 3, hours after being posted and right before the gag order was issued, but stayed up on Trump’s website until Thursday night, right after reports on social media emerged that it was still online and the court emailed Trump to remove it. At the start of trial Friday, Engoron called the post being left up a “blatant violation of the gag order,” as quoted by the Messenger, and asked Trump’s lawyers to explain why it shouldn’t result in “serious sanctions,” including being held in contempt, fines or “possibly imprisoning him.” Trump attorney Christopher Kise told the judge that the post being left up was an “inadvertent” mistake due to Trump’s “very large [campaign] operation,” ABC News reports. Engoron said he would take the issue under advisement, but added he “want[s] to make clear that Donald Trump is still responsible for the large machine, even if it is a large machine,” according to ABC. Crucial Quote “Despite this clear order, last night I learned that the subject offending post was never removed from…
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