Posted on 04/30/2024 7:29:00 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Judge Juan Merchan fined former President Donald Trump $9,000 Tuesday and held him in contempt for violating his gag order, warning he may impose jail time for future violations.
Merchan ordered Trump to remove the offending posts by 2:15 pm Tuesday and to pay the fine by May 3. He rejected Trump’s defense that he was simply engaging in political speech by responding to attacks by witnesses like Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, writing that the Court is “keenly aware of, and protective of, Defendant’s First Amendment rights, particularly given his candidacy for the office of President of the United States.” “It is critically important that Defendant’s legitimate free speech rights not be curtailed, that he be able to fully campaign for the office which he seeks and that he be able to respond and defend himself against political attacks,” Merchan wrote. “For that reason, this Court exercised discretion when it crafted the Expanded Order and delayed issuing it until the eve of trial.” However, Merchan warned Trump that he “will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an incarceratory punishment.”
Prosecutors argued in court filings that Trump violated the order in 10 instances, arguing for the judge to impose the maximum $1,000 fine for each alleged violation. The gag order prevents Trump from making statements about witnesses, prosecutors other than the district attorney, court staff and jurors, along with family members of the staff, district attorney or judge.
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Welcome to the Soviet Union.
While you have DNC thugs breaking down doors at Columbia. Which one does the NY AG care about?
Yep... it’d be interesting to see who the arresting party would be and how they’d go about it. Good luck with that.
GFY Merchan!
1) The city has to empty the entire floor due to Trump’s secret service protection requirements.
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Easy solution - strip him of SS protection, then to the general population he goes. What’s another violation of law for this Judge?
You are exactly right. He would also put an ankle bracelet on him. The judge is a lunatic and dangerous. Severe case of TDS.
Sorry for the vulgarity, but horse shit! The only thing that "court" is aware of is how to damage Trump to the max.
What happened to the NYCity truckers strike?
Where they were refusing to drive to NY city?
Only $9,000 not $900,000,000.00
Will the judge give that money to his daughter ? Fani would keep it .LOL
Originally this order applied to his family members too. An appeals court ruled he could not do so.
in fairness then the witnesses should also be gagged!
the 8th air corps does not exist these days.
The folks at Barksdale AFB would beg to differ. The Mighty Eighth is still going strong.
Colonel USAF JAGC (Ret)
Fmr SrIMA, 8AF/JA
Do it! you spineless p*ssy!! Throw him in jail if you have the balls..See what happens next. FAFO
I hope with all my heart and pray that Trump makes it and when he does I hope he doesn’t make the same mistake by not cleaning out all those left leaning s#!tt heads. If he doesn’t this country is doomed for sure.
Lol...I know.
I figured the fine would be 32 Septillion....paid by the end of the day or else.
putin is in high esteem to many here
“Trump should hold the judge in contempt for impersonating a judge.”
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“Trump should hold the judge in contempt for impersonating a human being.”
So, I now know what evil looks like........
my money was on house arrest
guess i lost
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