Judge fines Trump for violating judge’s order in fraud case

Former US President Donald Trump received another fine, $10,000, in his fraud trial in New York after being called to the witness stand by the judge, who reprimanded him for once again violating a “gag order” which prohibits him from speaking about the court clerk.

The judge, Arthur Engoron, imposed that order on Trump on October 2 after he published a personal attack against his secretary on his social networks, and he already received a fine of $5,000 because the message had remained visible on the web. Trump campaign for an alleged oversight.

Trump under oath

During the October 25 session, in which Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen Engoron is testifying as a witness, the judge called the former president to a hearing, so that he spoke under oath, to ask him about some statements he had made in the hallways. of the court.

“Did you say: this is a very partisan judge, with a very partisan person sitting next to him?” questioned the magistrate, to which the former president responded yes, but clarified that he was referring to Cohen sitting in that chair, something that did not seem to convince Engoron, despite his insistence, according to the ABC News channel, present in the room.

After a brief exchange, in which Trump called the secretary “very unfair,” Engoron determined that he was referring to her again because there is “a barrier” between her seat and the witness chair occupied by Cohen, and Furthermore, in that case, he would have called Cohen by his name.

“The witness is not credible. (…) Therefore, I fine you $10,000, (a figure) that leans towards the liberal, and you must pay it in 30 days,” Engoron told him, later adding that he would not change his mind and warning him: “Don’t do it again , or it will be worse.”

With information from Doble Llave

(Referential image source: Sonia Moskowitz Gordon / ZUMA Press Wire / dpa)

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