Prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office accused Trump of violating the gag order numerous times since it went into effect.
The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Tuesday held the former president in criminal contempt over a series of posts on Truth Social that he said violated a gag order barring any attacks on jurors and witnesses.
Judge Juan Merchan ruled Trump in contempt for nine violations of his gag order, with a fine of $1,000 for each instance. The order prohibits the former president from “making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding,” and “public statements about any prospective juror or any juror.”
Merchan had indicated on April 23 that he was not impressed by the arguments from the defense, telling one of Trump’s attorneys that he was “losing all credibility” when he suggested that Trump was exercising caution to comply with the gag order.
Put. Him. In. A. Holding. Cell.
Fill. The. Holding. Cell. With. Wasps.
50,000 to 60,000.
What about just one really big wasp?
50,000 wasp sized Trumps or 1 Trump sized wasp?
Then. Set. It. All. On. Fire.
And. Make. It. Televised.
Honestly?
The wasps deserve better.
Nah man, fuck wasps. Trump and Wasps deserve each other, and I mean both the Creature and the Christian
Wasps are living things. They likely experience pain and distress; i could never wish those on anything capable of feeling them. Señor racismo, on the other hand… maybe we could compromise and seal him in with some coronavirus to study its mutations?
Wasps are one of the more cruel and fucked up insects out there, they’d probably get along fine with Cheeto Benito
Wasps are one of the more cruel and fucked up insects out there
So still two classes of humanity above dorito Mussolini, then?
Fair enough I guess xD
Wasps
make it “TVs tuned to MSNBC”
Meidas Touch YT channel
Make him pick up litter along the highway.
In a hole preferably
So he’s going to jail right? Held in jail until his next trial date, like what normally happens to people held in contempt?
Next time, we totally mean it this time!
Stop, or I’ll say stop again!
I’ve written a strongly worded letter, don’t make address this envelope!
…for small change. This is not going to stop anything. It just gave his methods a (cheap) price tag.
It has to be reasonable and in line with practice. Trump is both like and unlike everyone else that’s gone through that courtroom. You have to treat him with kid gloves, let him keep pulling on the rope, then hang him with FAFO consequences fully justified and above reproach.
FOR REALS this time, if you do it AGAIN,
there will be consequenceswe’ll tell you to stop again!I know this is a popular thing to be angry about, but this time there was an actual fine. The consequences are being ratcheted up. The judge is just taking as much care as possible to make sure that all the "t"s are crossed and "i"s dotted along the way, otherwise he risks the whole trial being thrown out in the end. Look at some of the other high-profile “this rich guy’s guilty as sin but got off anyway” cases, they often boil down to some screw-up that doesn’t disprove the overall case but still invalidates the trial. Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby pop to mind.
. The judge is just taking as much care as possible to make sure that all the "t"s are crossed and "i"s dotted along the way
Ive heard this for every single trial trump has faced. This strategy isnt doing shit but making sure trump is comfortable before facing no consequences yet again.
This is the first criminal trial. You haven’t heard it in this regard before.
And unlike prior trials it started with fines rather than just warnings. The maximum allowed fine, even!
A $9,000 fine is hardly a consequence for the rich.
Yes, but as I explained, the judge is proceeding by steps up the ladder of consequences. The next time Trump violates a gag order he can now say “I have demonstrated that fines are insufficient, and so I’m moving on to jail time.”
$1000 fine per incident? Can Trump wipe his diapers with a thousand dollar bill before giving it to the court? When will this asshat have real accountability?
Statutory maximum, he can’t legally start with worse. He threatened jail for future contempt. And I hope he holds that promise!
He won’t.
Not hush money. Election interference.
This is a joke right?
The maximum fine in NY for this is $1,000 per infraction. If it continues, the judge could sentence jail time but the fine would remain the same.
So it’s basically designed for rich people to be to ignore?
The judge addressed that concern specifically and said that when $1k isn’t sufficient to cow a contemnor, detention should be imposed.
This is key. If he jailed him right away, his attorneys would call for a mistrial saying the judge was biased against him and they would probably succeed in getting the trial thrown out. It would still go on with another judge, but when the tactic is delay, they win.
This is the first step towards jail for contempt. There can be no doubt Trump is maliciously violating the gag order.
That said, I have little doubt some 11th hour fuckery will happen to prevent him from being jailed.
The Supreme Court will stop all of the democracy dismantling they are doing to say the do-nad can’t be imprisoned.
Sure is looking that way, isn’t it?
Yes.
Just like all the other laws.
It’s like handicap parking spots, it’s basically just a super expensive reserved parking spot that every parking lot is legally required to have.
Any criminal law punishable with a fine only (and bail in general) is fucked up because justice is supposed to be about applying fairness under universal laws and our means are not fairly distributed.
https://law.justia.com/codes/new-york/2022/jud/article-19/751/ has it also starting with 30 days max along with the 1k & it would be interesting to see how often those charges come with jail time.
And the judge acknowledged that point in his statement. Pointed out that other types of violations allow the guilty party’s wealth to be taken into account, but this charge doesn’t. Also pointed out that ignoring this sentence and doing future violations are mush more likely to lead to jail time.
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Despite Trump’s whining about everything being unfair to him, and the public saying this is a slap on the wrist, the judge is taking the legally appropriate and legally required steps.
I’m sure he’s shaking in his boots.
Mostly because he’s a fat worthless fuckstain, not because he’s scared of a 9,000 dollar fine.
I wonder if he’s gonna pull some sort of lame stunt, like pay it in pennies, or in 23 pairs of Trump Sneakers
$9,000? Fucking seriously?
Unfortunately, that is probably the statute. It sucks that we don’t scale up fines based on wealth.
In Sweden (I think), speeding tickets are based on how much money you have. A person making $50k a year will pay a lower speeding ticket compared to a billionaire going the same speed.
It’s the maximum penalty, and the judge acknowledged that he had no control over it and that he wished it scaled with the contemnor’s ability to pay.
As they say if the punishment is a fine it’s aimed at the poor.
Finland has that rule, not Sweden
Not entirely sure about speeding tickets specifically, but many fines in Sweden also scale with income.
Yeah, there’s the type of fine called dagsböter (day fine) scaled by income. It’s common but not the only type used.
What a coincidence! I find him contemptible, too
From what I have read, conditions of his release from the other trials include not committing ANY crime. Criminal contempt triggers this and Judge Chutkin is the most likely to jail him. Now…odds on that ACTUALLY happening…
That’s an interesting thought. It will never happen, of course, but if she decides he violated the terms of his release she could remand him to jail until trial. If that happens, then all of the work Trump has done to delay his other trials until after the election would end up costing him big time.
0.000000000% unfortunately
I think you dropped a 0.
There’s a 1 somewhere at the end of a nearly infinite list of zeroes.
Even if they not going to jail him they should at least sequester him with no outside contact.
Quick, everyone purchase the Ultimate Beach Set to help the god emperor out. /s
Eighty five American dollars for that? To what amounts to probably $3 in wholesale crap from a container drop?
1K??? AHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHHHAAHAAAA
OMG this is hilarious. I officially now have more contempt for this judge than I do for Trump. And that’s really saying something.
It’s the maximum penalty, and the judge acknowledged that he had no control over it and that he wished it scaled with the contemnor’s ability to pay.
