{"id":2238220,"date":"2024-05-06T10:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-again-finds-trump-in-contempt-for-violating-gag-order-threatens-incarceration\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:26:39","slug":"judge-again-finds-trump-in-contempt-for-violating-gag-order-threatens-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-again-finds-trump-in-contempt-for-violating-gag-order-threatens-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump faces renewed contempt charge for breaking gag order, risks jail time"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-again-finds-trump-in-contempt-for-violating-gag-order-threatens-incarceration%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=2238220&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>Former\u200d President Donald Trump was fined\u2062 $1,000 for breaking a\u2064 gag \u2064order in \u2063his New York hush money trial. The judge \u2063warned of\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lets-focus-on-real-criminals-desantis-pardons-covid-19-state-penalties\/\" title=\"\u2018Let\u2019s Focus On Real Criminals\u2019: DeSantis Pardons COVID-19 State Penalties\">potential jail time<\/a> for future violations. Trump had already been\u200b fined\u200d $9,000 for nine breaches cited by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump\u2064 intends to challenge the ruling. Former President Donald Trump was penalized $1,000 for violating a gag order in his New York hush money trial, \u2064with the judge \u2062cautioning\u200c about possible imprisonment for subsequent violations. Priorly, \u2062Trump faced $9,000 fines for nine \u200binfractions highlighted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Trump plans\u2063 to contest the ruling.  <\/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<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>A judge fined former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> an additional $1,000 on Monday for violating the gag order in his <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>New York<\/a> hush money trial, prompting the judge to warn future violations may result in incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/2991104\/trump-advantage-unconstitutional-gag-order-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"was already fined $9,000\">was already fined $9,000<\/a> for nine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-vows-to-file-challenge-against-unconstitutional-gag-order\/\" title=\"Trump pledges to contest 'unconstitutional' gag order\">separate violations raised<\/a> by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s office, and the former president has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2989894\/trump-vows-to-challenge-gag-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>vowed to appeal<\/a> Judge Juan Merchan\u2019s findings \u2014 especially surrounding breaches that were the result of Trump reposting other people\u2019s online posts. Trump, the first former president to be a defendant in a criminal trial, was previously warned that future violations could result in jail time.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media outside the Manhattan Criminal Court room during his trial on Friday, May 3, 2024, in New York. (Mark Peterson\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the new contempt finding against Trump, Merchan again warned Trump that he is \u201chereby\u00a0put\u00a0on\u00a0notice\u00a0that\u00a0if appropriate\u00a0and warranted,\u00a0future violations of its lawful\u00a0orders\u00a0will\u00a0be punishable by\u00a0incarceration,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/LegacyPDFS\/press\/PDFs\/DOcontempt_5-6-24FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"according\">according<\/a> to the order.<\/p>\n<p>A new witness is slated to take the stand in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-criminal-hush-money-trial-set-for-march-25\/\" title=\"Trump's hush money trial scheduled for March 25\">criminal hush money trial<\/a> on Monday. Trump\u2019s former aide Hope Hicks testified Friday about the fallout from the <em>Access Hollywood <\/em>tape released during his 2016 campaign and the Trump White House\u2019s response to new stories about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records\">hush money payments<\/a> to porn star Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal that had been made during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in the Democratic district attorney\u2019s office said Trump took part in an illegal conspiracy to undermine the 2016 election and hatched an unlawful plan to suppress negative information, which included a $130,000 hush money payment handled by his former attorney, Michael Cohen. Defense attorneys have argued that Trump was not directly involved in structuring the payments and have noted that suppressing negative information is not illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has pleaded not guilty to the 34 counts of falsifying business records.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump was fined $1,000 for breaching a gag order in his New York hush money trial. The judge&#8217;s warning of possible jail time for future violations followed Trump&#8217;s $9,000 fines for nine previous breaches brought up by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2238221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24124493390162.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trump faces renewed contempt charge for breaking gag order, risks jail time","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24124493390162.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trump faces renewed contempt charge for breaking gag order, risks jail time","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238220","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\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}