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Not a gag, Previous Guy storms out of the civil trial after being 'put on the stand' [1]
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Date: 2023-10-25
Trump’s shtick is apparently too smart for the room. He gets fined for his attempts to skirt meaning with his usual rhetoric stunts.
Mister Accordion Hands stormed out of the trial after the humiliation of violating yet again, the gag order by ambiguously referring to the person “next to the Judge” as ‘partisan’.
Trump may have been referring to Michael Cohen, who was at the time in the witness box, but Trump as usual forgot he had already stepped over the line by referring to the judge’s law clerk who sits adjacent, as a ‘girlfriend of Chuck Schumer’.
More humiliating may have been the Judge putting Trump in the witness box to clarify Trump’s yammering to the assembled press outside the courtroom during breaks.
Trump returned to the courtroom again after storming out, and after the public had left.
The reality is that Cohen’s testimony wasn’t shaken, and indeed Trump acted like a “mob boss”.
“Don't do it again or it'll be worse,” Engoron reportedly warned after issuing the fine. Previously, Trump had been fined $5,000 for failing to remove a post criticizing the judge's law clerk. Engoron had already admonished Trump, a 2024 Republican nominee frontrunner, for making derogatory remarks about court staff. During a trial recess regarding a lawsuit by New York Attorney General Letitia James concerning Trump's business practices, the former disgraced president called the judge partisan and implied the same for the person alongside him, the clerk. "This judge is a very partisan judge," trump whined, "with a person who's very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is." Engoron deemed these comments a blatant violation of the gag order, leading to the imposition of the $10,000 fine after Trump briefly testified. The fines underscore the notion that the former so-called President who is running for office again, does not possess the discipline to refrain from following legal orders, and blatantly broke a law meant to protect an American citizen. x 🚨🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump was just slapped with a $10,000 fine in his civil fraud trial on Wednesday for violating a gag order for the second time, as determined by Justice Arthur Engoron.
Previously, Trump had been fined $5,000 for failing to remove a post criticizing the… pic.twitter.com/2QyqUASxMz — Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) October 25, 2023 The judge overseeing former President Trump's civil fraud trial in New York on Wednesday ordered him to pay $10,000 for violating his gag order — the second fine relating to the order he's faced in less than week. Why it matters: Trump was ordered to testify on Wednesday after Judge Arthur Engoron questioned whether he violated his gag order by appearing to reference the judge's law clerk during remarks to reporters. Engoron issued the gag order earlier this month after Trump made a post on his Truth Social account attacking the judge's law clerk. Details: "As the trier of fact, I find that the witness is not credible," Engoron said Wednesday after Trump's testimony, per CNN. "Don't do it again or it'll be worse," the judge reportedly warned after issuing the fine. Zoom out: Engoron considered earlier on Wednesday whether he should impose "severe sanctions" on Trump, after he appeared to reference the judge's law clerk. "This judge is a very partisan judge with a person who is very partisan sitting alongside him — perhaps even much more partisan than he is," Trump told reporters during a break, CNN reports.
reports. Engoron said that Trump has made "defamatory, disparaging, untrue comments" about the law clerk in the past. www.axios.com/...
x Here's the moment Donald Trump violated his gag order in his NY trial for the second time with an attack on Judge Engoron's clerk right outside the courtroom.
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https://t.co/ATV6N105pu pic.twitter.com/QWsXLru5lz — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) October 25, 2023
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