Trump fined $9,000 for violating ‘gag order’ during criminal trial

The former president donald trumpfacing a criminal trial in New YorkThis Tuesday, he was fined $9,000 for violating the ‘silence order’ that prohibits him from publicly attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jury members.

The judge Juan M. Merchanin charge of the criminal case that the Republican faces in New Yorkdetermined that trump had violated the ‘silence order’ by making several public statements on his social network, Social Truthand on his campaign website, where he attacked witnesses who participated in the trial.

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Trump must eliminate the seven “offensive posts” by Truth Social and the two “offensive posts” from his campaign website before 2:15 pm local time (6:15 pm GMT) today.

This Tuesday began the third week of the trial against the former president and Republican presidential candidate this year, which continues with declarations of Gary Farro, the banker who began testifying on Friday.

Farro reported the efforts of michael cohen -the former lawyer and right-hand man of trumpwho is expected to be one of the main witnesses for the Public Prosecutor’s Office this week – to open a financial account that was used to pay the porn actress Stormy Daniels.

trumpwho is obliged to attend the entire trial, appeared in court today accompanied by his son Eric Trump.

The tycoon faces 34 criminal counts of forgery of business records in the first degree to cover up a sex scandal.

Source: Elcomercio

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