Live Updates: Judge Holds Trump in Contempt of Court, Fining Him $9,000
Live Updates: Judge Holds Trump in Contempt of Court, Fining Him $9,000
The judge overseeing the criminal trial of Donald J. Trump said he would be willing to jail the former president if he continued to violate his gag order. A banker who set up the account used to make a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels is back on the stand.
$1000 is the maximum contempt of court fine per offense allowed in the state of New York. While this is definitely chump change for trump know that the judge can't charge him more. At least he's threatening incarceration.
Couldn't they just cut to the incarceration?
That's like charging me $0.90 or $1.80 depending on if I inflate my assets at all
Yes but it sets legal dominoes in motion in ALL of his cases.
The bail conditions in ALL his cases include not breaking any laws. Federal, state and local laws.
He's now charged with "contempt of court" so he should be getting more orange soon. 🤞
I'll take "More Shit that Won't Happen" for $600, Alex.
Wake me up when green is the new orange
It's the maximum allowed per offense in New York. But now that he has been fined, the judge can escalate next time he violates the order.
Trumps a broke bitch, at the absolute minimum, it's going to piss him off to the point he's going to be laying awake raging. Golly, I hope it doesn't give him a McHeartattack. I want to see him suffer through the rest of the court cases.
$9,000? So now contempt of court has a price tag, and it's one even his fraudulent ass can easily afford. Way to make things worse again, guys.
That’s like fining a normal person a nickle.
Why aren’t these things based on net worth? These systems are so broken.
These systems are so broken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does
The system is functioning exactly as designed, to the benefit of those that designed it and to the detriment of people they consider enemies. Making crime legal for a fee is exactly what it's supposed to do, as that allows the aristocrats to continue regulating the rest of us while giving them free rein.
If Trump gets jail time, it should be from right before the nomination to after the day of the election. Since he can only be jailed one month per offense, I would hold off on jail until he can't get out before the election. Ideally, the first time Trump sees prison should be after a jury conviction - as he has already set up a "woe is me, the judge is a liberal plant" defense if the jailing comes purely under the discretion of judge.
joke's on you imagining there's a circumstance in which he'd simply accept responsibility for the constant parade of crimes he commits. he's gonna whine and play victim no matter how obviously guilty he is or how much preferential treatment he's received.
It won't be timed like that due to his currently pending contempt charges — it'll look like 30 days or less, happening in May.
Let's see if he deletes the stuff by 2:15pm today or not....
It's gone. Trump never fights back. He just cries like a baby.
Wen jail?
Seriously, BFD. 9k is nothing and he won't go to jail even though he should already be there.
Prosecutors are walking Keith Davidson through his text messages with Dylan Howard, who was editor of The National Enquirer, in which Davidson tells Howard: “I have blockbuster Trump story.” In his reply, Howard asked, "did he cheat" on Melania.
Lol. The head of the National Enquirer was told there was a blockbuster story about Trump and he just assumed Trump had cheated on Melania. Or as Trump calls her: "Melanie".
We're doomed. If it's not fascism, it's bird flu. Really it's probably both.
microplastics
Climate change
And let THAT be a LESSON to this BILLIONAIRE!