Donald Trump was fined $10,000 on Wednesday after the New York judge overseeing his civil fraud trial said the former U.S. president violated a gag order for a second time.

Justice Arthur Engoron on Oct. 3 barred Trump from disparaging court staff after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge’s top clerk posing with U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer’s “girlfriend.”

During a trial break on Wednesday in the civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James concerning Trump’s business practices, Trump told reporters, “This judge is a very partisan judge, with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”

Engoron, surmising that Trump was referring to his clerk, called the comments a “blatant” violation of the gag order. The judge imposed the fine after Trump briefly took the witness stand to take questions.

  • @quindraco@lemm.ee
    8•1 year ago

    Your math is bad.

    16 total payments of 5k, 10k, 20k, … is $327,675,000.

    That is 1% of $32,767,500,000.

    Trump’s net worth is not reported as close to 33 billion anywhere, and never has been.

    13 payments would be 1% of about 4 billion, which could be ballparked as about Trump’s reported net worth at various times in history.

    • iAmTheTot
      5•1 year ago

      My math was indeed bad! That’s what I get for doing it fast at work lmao. Thanks for the call out.