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The judge of the historic trial of donald trump This Monday, he threatened the former president with arrest if he continued to violate his order that prohibits him from speaking ill of witnesses, the jury and court staff in public.
He judge imposed a new fine of US$1,000, it adds up for other sanctions of 9,000 for nine previous violations of the court order prohibiting him from forwarding for everything related to the trial on their social networks.
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In its decision, the judge warns that this is the tenth time the court has found him guilty of contempt from them requests, “It seems clear that fines will not be sufficient to deter a defendant from violating lawful orders.”
“As much as I don’t want to impose a sanction chain…I want you to understand that I will do it”alerted the judge John Merchant at the beginning of the third week of the trial of the first ex-president in the history of the U.S who sits on the bench.
On this occasion, for trump He is fined for having criticized in an interview the speed (a week) with which the jury was chosen and its supposed composition in a predominantly Democratic city.
trumpa 77-year-old Republican, is accused of 34 falsifications of business documents to reimburse for his then personal lawyer Michael Cohen paid US$130,000 to buy the former porn star’s silence Stormy Daniels just days before the 2016 elections that he won against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
It is expected that Danielwhose real name is Stephanie CliffordIt is Cohenthe former lawyer of trump who has become a sworn enemy of his former boss, testify at some point in the court of Manhattan Superior Courtwhere the trial will take place.
Over the first two weeks they paraded through several witnesses are who exposed what is happening to try to hide potentially negative news for the presidential campaign of the aspiring New York real estate mogul for win the presidential elections next November.
But perhaps one of the most harmful for trump was the testimony of his former close advisor I hope Hickswho on Friday explained how he had to manage the “crisis” when leaving for turn on a recording in which the tycoon boasted that someone famous like him could pay anything to win for women, touching their genitals without them flinching.
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“Crisis”
rednecks recognized that he was “a little stunned” for that recording called “Access Hollywood”.
“We all agree that the tape was harmfulit was a crisis“, sustained redneckswho was a key actor in the final phase of the successful presidential campaign of trump in 2016 when payments were allegedly made for Daniel.
According to prosecutors, panic over the recording triggered a campaign effort to trump silence Daniel who threatened to make public an alleged extramarital relationship she had with the tycoon in 2006, and which she always denied.
Payment in Yes It’s not a crime. But trump He is accused of disguising this 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 Democrats with the current president Joe Biden forward, to prevent him from making the long-awaited return to return for the White House.
In addition to the case of New York, trump was accused in Washington and Georgia of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election he won Bidenand take home Florida highly secret documents that could compromise state security at the end of his presidency in 2021.
Source: Elcomercio
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