AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool Judge Juan Merchan, the Biden-donor judge presiding over Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York City, announced on Monday his intention to once again hold Trump in contempt of court for the tenth time for exercising his First Amendment rights by violating his gag order.
Merchan also expressed his willingness to consider imprisonment for future infractions because the fines have done little to stop Trump from speaking publicly in his defense about the case.
Merchan cited four statements by Trump that violated the gag order and fined him $1,000 for each statement. In the first statement, made on April 22, Trump said, “And when are they going to look at all the lies that Cohen did in the last trial? He got caught lying in the last trial. So he got caught lying, pure lying. And when are they going to look at that?”
The next statement Merchan […]
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