Judge Hits Trump With Fines, Threat­ens Jail Time Over Gag Order

Judge Hits Trump With Fines, Threatens Jail Time Over Gag Order

The New York judge pre­sid­ing over Don­ald Trump’s hush-mon­ey tri­al fined the for­mer pres­i­dent $9,000 and threat­ened him with jail time for social media posts the judge said vio­lat­ed a court-imposed gag order.
Judge Juan Mer­chan wrote in an order on Tues­day that Trump had vio­lat­ed a gag order against speak­ing out about sev­er­al peo­ple involved in the tri­al nine times. Mer­chan fined the for­mer pres­i­dent $1,000 for each vio­la­tion and ordered him to delete the posts in ques­tion from Truth Social and Trump’s cam­paign web­site.
The judge warned Trump that addi­tion­al vio­la­tions of the gag order could result in jail time for …