The judge of the historic trial of donald trump This Monday, he threatened the former president with jail if he continues to violate his order that prohibits him from speaking ill of witnesses, the jury and court personnel in public.
The judge imposed a new fine of US$1,000, which is added to other sanctions of US$9,000 for nine previous violations of the court order that prohibits him from referring to anything related to the trial on his social networks.
In his decision, the judge warns him that because this is the tenth time the court has found him guilty of disobeying its orders, “It seems clear that fines will not be enough to deter the defendant from violating legal orders.”
“As much as I don’t want to impose a jail sentence on you… I want you to understand that I will“, warned the judge Juan Merchan at the beginning of the third week of the trial of the first former president in the history of the United States to sit in the dock.
On this occasion, Trump is fined for having criticized in an interview the speed (one week) with which the jury was chosen and its supposed composition in a predominantly Democratic city.
Trump, a 77-year-old Republican, is accused of 34 falsifications of business documents to reimburse his then personal lawyer Michael Cohen for paying US$130,000 to buy the silence of the former porn actress. Stormy Daniels a few days before the 2016 elections that he won against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
It is expected that danielswhose real name is Stephanie Clifford, and Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer who has become a sworn enemy of his former boss, will testify at some point in the Manhattan Superior Court courtroom where the trial is being held.
Throughout the first two weeks, several witnesses have paraded on the stand who have exposed the goings-on to try to hide potentially negative news for the presidential campaign of the New York real estate magnate, who aspires to win the presidential elections next November.
But perhaps one of the most damaging for Trump was the testimony of his former close advisor Hope Hicks, who on Friday explained how she had to manage the “crisis” when a recording came to light in which the magnate boasted that someone famous like him could afford anything to conquer women, touching their genitals without them flinching.
“Crisis”
Hicks acknowledged that he was “a little dazed” for that recording called “Access Hollywood”.
“We all agreed that the tape was harmful, it was a crisis“said Hicks, who was a key player in the final stages of Trump’s successful 2016 presidential campaign, when payments were allegedly made to daniels.
According to prosecutors, the panic over the recording triggered an effort by the Trump campaign to silence Daniels, who threatened to make public an alleged extramarital relationship she had with the magnate in 2006, and which he has always denied.
The payment itself is not a crime. But trump He is accused of disguising it as his lawyer’s legal expenses.
In the middle of the election campaign, trump considers himself a victim of a “Witch hunt” and a legal conspiracy by the Democrats with current President Joe Biden at the helm, to prevent him from making his long-awaited return to the White House.
In addition to the New York case, Trump has been accused in Washington and Georgia of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election that he won. Bidenand taking highly secret documents to his Florida home that could compromise the security of the state at the end of his presidency in 2021.
Source: Gestion
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