Donald Trump was fined $10,000 on Wednesday after the New York judge overseeing his civil fraud trial said the former U.S. president violated a gag order for a second time.

Justice Arthur Engoron on Oct. 3 barred Trump from disparaging court staff after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge’s top clerk posing with U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer’s “girlfriend.”

During a trial break on Wednesday in the civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James concerning Trump’s business practices, Trump told reporters, “This judge is a very partisan judge, with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”

Engoron, surmising that Trump was referring to his clerk, called the comments a “blatant” violation of the gag order. The judge imposed the fine after Trump briefly took the witness stand to take questions.

    • girlfreddy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      Imo they haven’t simply because if Trump is in jail, so is his Secret Service detail … and that’s a shit show nobody wants to deal with right now.

      • Snorf@reddthat.com
        6·
        8 months ago

        We should just build a cell in the white house. A super secret cell with tunnels and bunkers and shit. Everyone knows it’s there, but they say it’s impossible to figure out where it is. There’s only one entrance inside the white house somewhere that only 3 secret service agents know about.

        And the sitting president can stream footage online if they wanted.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        if Trump is in jail, so is his Secret Service detail

        It’s not like they’ll be in the cell with him.

        And it’ll be a lot easier for them to keep him protected if he’s locked up. (Clearly they’ll never put someone like this in general population where some random gangbanger can get at him.)

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          8 months ago

          (Clearly they’ll never put someone like this in general population where some random gangbanger can get at him.)

          I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. And then, Epstein’d his ass

      • Unaware7013@kbin.social
        21·
        8 months ago

        Nah, take him to a cell in some place like Leavenworth where they’ve already got plenty of security. No sense in wasting money on extra personnel when they can just house him with other high security felons.