Trump Held In Gag Order Contempt, Fined $9000

NBC News reports:

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 each.

The ruling comes after prosecutors argued that Trump violated the gag order that prohibits him 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.”

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BREAKING: Judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial holds the former president in criminal contempt over a series of posts on Truth Social that he said violated a gag order. https://t.co/XxRPmMUNOU

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