{"id":2234052,"date":"2024-04-30T19:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-hits-trump-with-fines-threatens-jail-time-over-gag-order\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T19:21:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:21:38","slug":"judge-hits-trump-with-fines-threatens-jail-time-over-gag-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-hits-trump-with-fines-threatens-jail-time-over-gag-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge fines Trump and threatens jail time for violating gag order"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-hits-trump-with-fines-threatens-jail-time-over-gag-order%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2234052&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The New York judge handling Donald Trump&#8217;s hush-money trial fined him $9,000 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-the-maskless-celebs-at-super-bowl-2022-and-some-of-their-old-posts-that-didnt-age-well\/\" title=\"All The Maskless Celebs At Super Bowl 2022, And Some Of Their Old Posts That Didn\u2019t Age Well\">threatened jail time<\/a> for violating a court-ordered gag rule through social media. Judge Juan Merchan found \u200bTrump in breach of the order nine\u200b times, imposing $1,000 fines for each \u200dviolation and mandating post removal from Truth Social and the campaign website. Further \u200cviolations may lead to imprisonment. \u2062The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump&#8217;s hush-money trial penalized \u2062him $9,000 and warned of imprisonment for flouting a court-imposed gag order on social media. Trump was found to have contravened the order nine times, resulting in $1,000 fines per violation and the directive to erase the posts \u200dfrom \u200dTruth Social and his campaign website. Subsequent breaches could result in incarceration.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump\u2019s hush-money trial fined the former president $9,000 and threatened him with jail time for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media posts<\/a> the judge said violated a court-imposed gag order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Judge Juan Merchan wrote in an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/LegacyPDFS\/press\/PDFs\/D.O.motion4contempt-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">order<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on Tuesday that Trump had violated a gag order against speaking out about several people involved in the trial nine times. Merchan fined the former president $1,000 for each violation and ordered him to delete the posts in question from Truth Social and Trump\u2019s campaign website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The judge warned Trump that additional violations of the gag order could result in jail time for the former president. Merchan complained that he is not legally allowed to fine Trump more than $1,000 for each violation, arguing that heftier fines, potentially as large as $150,000, would be more likely to produce the desired effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCriminal contempt is punishable by a fine not exceeding $ 1,000, by jail not exceeding 30 days or by both in the discretion of the court, for each violation of a court order. \u2026 However, the Judiciary Law does not vest the Court with authority to craft an appropriate punishment when a $1,000 fine will not achieve the intended purpose,\u201d Merchan wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhile $1,000 may suffice in most instances to protect the dignity of the judicial system, to compel respect for its mandates and to punish the offender for disobeying a court order, it unfortunately will not achieve the desired result in those instances where the contemnor can easily afford such a fine,\u201d he continued. \u201cIn those circumstances, it would be preferable if the Court could impose a fine more commensurate with the wealth of the contemnor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIn some cases that might be a $2,500 fine, in other cases it might be a fine of $150,000. Because this Court is not cloaked with such discretion, it must therefore consider whether in some instances, jail may be a necessary punishment,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1714129450076000&#038;usg=AOvVaw11MUL_oXewNl-yGfGqnuu8\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump is on trial over $130,000 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-the-charges-brought-against-the-trump-organizations-cfo-part-of-a-witch-hunt-experts-weigh-in\/\" title=\"Are The Charges Brought Against The Trump Organization\u2019s CFO Part Of A Witch Hunt? Experts Weigh In\">alleged hush-money payments<\/a> to the porn star known as Stormy Daniels in 2016. Prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s office say the former president illegally paid Daniels the money to keep her quiet about an alleged affair during the 2016 campaign. Trump faces 34 felony accounts of falsifying business records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Merchan issued a gag order against Trump in March that barred him from commenting on potential witnesses, jurors, court staff, and attorneys. Later, after Trump pointed out Merchan\u2019s daughter\u2019s history working for elected Democrats, Merchan expanded the gag order to cover members of his family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump&#8217;s hush-money trial fined him $9,000 and warned of jail time for breaching a gag order through social media posts. Judge Juan Merchan stated Trump infringed the court&#8217;s gag order against discussing certain individuals in an order issued on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2234053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Donald-Trump-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Donald-Trump-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}