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I got the wrong judge earlier, said it was the DC one who would throw Trump in jail but it was Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron, Smiley Face!

Trump did get fined.....

Judge fines Trump $5,000 for gag order violation after threatening him with jail time

CNBC ^ | 10/20/2023 | Kevin Breuninger

A New York judge fined Donald Trump $5,000 on Friday after threatening the former president with jail time for violating a partial gag order in his civil fraud trial.

But Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron warned that future violations will subject Trump to “far more severe sanctions” — including imprisonment. ***

Friday’s fine, while small for Trump, is the first time the ex-president has faced punishment for violating court-ordered restrictions on his speech. Engoron made the decision after discovering that Trump had not fully deleted the social media post that prompted the speech restrictions in the first place.

The judge had imposed a narrow gag order earlier this month after Trump, the leading candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, sent a Truth Social post attacking the judge’s law clerk. Engoron at the time ordered that the post be deleted, and he barred Trump and other parties in the case from making public statements about his staff.

But the post remained up on Trump’s website, donaldjtrump.com, for more than two weeks, archived screenshots of the page show.

The left-leaning website MeidasTouch published an article Thursday about the not-deleted post. The Daily Beast reported that that article led attorneys on both sides of the trial to be notified about the post, which was ultimately removed Thursday night.

Engoron laced into Trump in court Friday morning.

“This is a blatant violation of the gag order. I made it clear failure to comply will result in serious sanctions,” the judge said. “It remained on the Donald J. Trump campaign site and in fact it has been on there for the past 17 days, [and] it was removed late last night after an email from this court.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/20/trump-threatened-with-prison-for-violating-gag-order.html

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