The ex-president Donald Trump was fined with the payment of $9,000 this Tuesday, April 30, 2024 for contempt of court. ‘gag order’ during his criminal trial in NY. This measure prohibits him from publicly attacking witnesses, prosecutors and members of the jury.
Judge Juan M. Merchanin charge of the criminal process that the Republican is facing in NYdetermined that Trump had violated the ‘gag order’. He incurred the sanction by making several public statements on his social network, Truth Socialand on his campaign website in which he attacked witnesses participating in the trial.
Trump must remove the seven “offensive posts” from Truth Social and the two “offensive posts” on his campaign website before 2:15 p.m. local time (6:15 p.m. GMT) this Tuesday.
Today began the third week of the trial against the former president and candidate for this year’s Republican presidential elections. For this day it is planned to continue with the statements of Gary Farrothe banker who began testifying on Friday.
Farro recounted the efforts of Michael Cohen -the former lawyer and right-hand man of Trumpwho is expected to be one of the Prosecutor’s star witnesses this week – to open a financial account that was used to pay the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Trumpwho is required to attend the entire trial, appeared in court today accompanied by his son Eric Trump. The mogul faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree to cover up a sex scandal. EFE
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