The order came from judge Juan Merchan. The fine was slightly less than the $10,000 penalty that prosecutors requested for posts deemed insulting by Donald Trump online. TruthSocial.
In addition to the fine of nine thousand dollars (around 8.4 thousand euros), the judge also considered the possibility of imposing new fines for other statements made at the hearing.
Donald Trump was warned that “the Court will not tolerate continued and willful violations of its orders and that, if necessary and appropriate, it will impose a sentence of imprisonment.”judge Juan Merchan made clear, in the written decision.
Like this, Trump could face prison time for violating gag order during trialan order that Merchan imposed in order to prevent the former president from criticizing witnesses and other people involved in the case.
In the various shares on that social network, the former president insulted witnesses and questioned the impartiality of the jury. The judge also ordered Trump to remove the statements from his Facebook account. TruthSocial and his presidential campaign website.
The judgement
The former President of the United States is being prosecuted for 34 falsifications of accounting documents that were allegedly used to hide a payment intended to cover up a potential sex scandal in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign.
At stake are also more than 120,000 euros that were paid to former pornographic film actress, Stormy Daniels, to buy her silence about a sexual relationship she claimed to have had with Trump in 2006, when the Republican was already married. with Melania. Donald Trump denies the existence of this relationship.
From the first day of the trial, the prosecution asked the judge to sanction Donald Trump for insults against Stormy Daniels and her former lawyer Michael Cohen.
The accusation returned three days later, because of seven new publications on the TruthSocial or in site of the Republican campaign for the 2024 presidential elections. Trump insisted on attacking Michael Cohen, describing him as a “serial liar”.
The former president replicated the accusatory comments of Jesse Watters, a well-known presenter on the channel (favorite of conservatives), Fox News. Watters reportedly said – without evidence – that “they are choosing undercover progressive activists who lie to the judge to be on the jury.”
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