Posted on 04/30/2024 4:46:28 PM PDT by lowbridge
Former President Trump deleted social media posts that a judge determined violated a gag order in his criminal hush money trial, just before a Tuesday deadline.
Judge Juan Merchan fined Trump $9,000 and held him in contempt nine times early Tuesday over the posts on Truth Social and his campaign website, which included attacks on prospective jurors and witnesses in the case. He added that further violations could result in jail time.
“Defendant is hereby warned that the Court 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,” Merchan wrote in his ruling.
Trump faced a 2:15 p.m. EDT deadline to remove the posts.
The nine deleted posts, most of them reposts of other online figures, include multiple attacks on expected witnesses Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, as well as a post blasting potential jurors as “liberal activists.” Merchan found that one of the posts in question, a repost of attorney Michael Avenatti, which disparaged Daniels and Cohen, did not violate the gag order and could remain online.
The expanded gag order, which Trump has repeatedly criticized as too limiting, bars him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and the judge’s family in his hush money case, in which he stands accused of paying off a porn actor ahead of the 2016 election to prevent the public from learning of an alleged affair, then writing down the payment as a legal expense.
Trump’s trial, the first ever criminal trial of a former president, will continue Thursday. It is expected to last about a month.
These are the nine posts that have been removed.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I support Trump but he really needs to learn to keep his mouth shut sometimes.
Even if what he says is the truth.
Trump may have deleted these from Truth Social, but the WayBack Machine still has them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240425153846/https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112275405545650590
Does this mean that we can post them for Trump?
I don’t look at it that way. The gag orders are clearly examples of lawfare and Trump has every right to push the boundaries.
I support Trump but he really needs to learn to keep his mouth shut sometimes.
so, can’t one of trump’s children post “this is what dad told me”?
“Lawful orders” my gluteus maximus!
F off! Trump fights! We cannot spare that man.
Yes. They have been quoted, reposted, screen shot and distributed. The internet is forever.
Exactly. Everything that happens in this court is corrupt. REPOSTING another person’s article doesn’t violate ANYTHING.
Nah, this judge is the one who needs to hush. Every kook leftist involved in Trump’s persecution is given free reign to speak and this joke of a judge is unconstitutionally shutting the defendant down.
Garbage judiciary.
Agreed, but PDJT could pick his battles a bit better. Try to engender some sympathy
Trump’s job is to destroy the deep state not keep his mouth shut. He knows what he’s doing.
You have a point. I wish he hadn’t gone after my governor the way he did.
His makeup, though, is very rough and pugilistic. The way I imagine Teddy Roosevelt probably was in person...or perhaps George Patton.
“I support Trump but he really needs to learn to keep his mouth shut sometimes.
Even if what he says is the truth.”
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Have you considered taking your own advice?
I didn’t think so
Gag order = I forbid you to question the legitimacy or objectivity of this trial.
“You will respect my athoretae” as I proceed over this kangaroo court.
“Bailiff, get the thumbs screws, let’s get this inquisition started!”
I feel the same way and I’m sure there are others who do also but don’t want to take the flak for saying so. He’s always needed a filter!!!! It’s not necessary to say everything that comes to mind. Most of the time, it causes big problems if one doesn’t think things through - it has in family situations that I’ve experienced...STOP - THINK!
He isn’t sayng anything. It’s links to what OTHER people are saying. This is election interference. Wake the hell up.
So...now that this anti-American ‘judge’ has imposed a penalty on DJT in accordance with his illegal, unConstitutional gag order...does DJT now have a cause for appeal of the order?
Or, is something more needed?
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