Donald Trump, former US President Donald Trump received another fine of $10,000 this Wednesday in the fraud trial being followed in New York after being called to the witness chair by the judge, who reprimanded him for violating again a “gag order” prohibiting him from talking about his secretary.
The judge, Arthur Engoron, imposed that order on Trump on October 2 after he published a personal attack against his secretary on his social networks, and last Friday he already received a fine of $5,000 because the message had remained in view. on Trump’s campaign website for an alleged oversight.
During today’s session, in which Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen Engoron, is testifying as a witness, the judge called the former president to a hearing, so that he spoke under oath, to ask him about some statements he had made in the hallways of the court.
“Did you say: this is a very partisan judge, with a very partisan person sitting next to him?” the magistrate asked, to which the former president responded yes, but clarified that he was referring to Cohen sitting in that chair, something that did not seem to convince Engoron, despite his insistence, according to the ABC News channel, present in the room.
After a brief exchange, in which Trump called the secretary “very unfair,” Engoron determined that he was referring to her again because there is “a barrier” between her seat and the witness chair occupied by Cohen, and Furthermore, in that case, he would have called Cohen by his name.
“The witness is not credible. (…) Therefore, I fine him $10,000, (a figure) that leans towards the liberal, and he must pay it in 30 days,” Engoron told him after excusing him, adding later that he did not would change his mind and warn him: “Don’t do it again, or it will be worse.”
Last week, the judge threatened Trump with jail time if he again violated the order, which prevents him from commenting generally on court personnel.
The fraud trial against Trump, his two oldest children, his company and two partners, in which six charges related to illegalities are being settled, will last until mid-December.
