According to Merchanwho announced his decision to Trump at the opening of a new trial hearing, the defendant violated the order not to insult witnesses, jurors, members of the court nor to their relatives. Trump was fined for nine violations of the order he had received not to attack the court.
The nine fines and infractions that Donald Trump has
Each violation was punished with US$1,000. and was ordered to withdraw no later than this Tuesday afternoon “offensive comments”seven of these placed on his Truth Social platform and two on his campaign website for the November presidential elections.
Merchan warned the Ex leader (2017-2021) that could be arrested in case of recidivism.
“The court will not tolerate repeated violations of its orders and if necessary and in the appropriate circumstances he will impose a prison sentence,” the judge stressed.
The historic trial of Republican magnate Donald Trump
The judge issued his order before testimony resumed in the historic trial of the Republican magnate on charges of falsifying business records to pay for the silence of a porn star, Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an alleged extramarital relationship.
Trump is the first former US president to face criminal chargesand his required court attendance is limiting full-time dedication to the electoral campaign to less than seven months before his expected rematch with the US president, Democrat Joe Biden, who defeated him in 2020.
The billionaire He is accused of falsifying business records to reimburse his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, the US$130,000 channeled to Daniels just days before the 2016 elections, in which he defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton. Daniels, 45, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, threatened at that time to make his story public over a alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 that could have derailed his campaign for the White House.
Trump denies having sexual relations with Daniels and used appearances outside the Manhattan courtroom to criticize his accusation, claiming that it constitutes a “witch hunt” started by Democrats to torpedo his attempt to regain the presidency.
The possible witnesses in the trial of Donald Trump
Gary Farroformer CEO of the now-defunct First Republic Bank, took the witness stand on Tuesday after testifying briefly on Friday.
Cohen, a kind of “fixer” of situations for Trump, opened an account at First Republic on behalf of a company called Essential Consultants to manage the payment to Daniels. Cohen, who is expected to became an explicit critic of Trump, and Daniels will be star witnesses during the trial.
The opening of the trial of the former president of the United States
The opening of the trial was dominated last week by the testimony of a former editor of the National Enquirer tabloidwho said he suppressed potentially damaging stories about Trump. David Pecker72, described a practice known as “catch and kill”, which involved buying and then burying spicy stories that could have been embarrassing for the real estate magnate and harmed his campaign.
For example, The former editor told the court that he paid $30,000 to remove a story about a Trump Tower janitor that he was promoting an apparently false claim that the tycoon had fathered a child outside of his marriage.
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