Radical Trump-hating New York Judge Juan Merchan fined President Trump $9,000 for speaking out in his own defense and violating an unconstitutional gag order in the ongoing lawfare trial in New York City.
Merchan went so far as to threaten President Trump with jail time if he persists in publicly defending himself in the case.
Despite the lack of a defined crime in this latest legal action supported by the Biden administration, Trump is prohibited from defending himself publicly.
Meanwhile, the liberal mainstream media continues to propagate the regime’s narrative, misleading the American public with a barrage of falsehoods.
America is descending into a banana republic, courtesy of the bitter and divisive tactics used by Marxist Democrats.
BREAKING: Today Judge Juan Merchan has ordered President Trump to pay a $9,000 fine to the court for “contempt” by Friday, May 3, 2024 for “violating his gag order”.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 30, 2024
Merchan has also ordered both President Trump and his campaign to delete 9 Truth Social posts in total (7 from… pic.twitter.com/wSBG0na2g9
MSNBC reported:
Judge Juan Merchan found Donald Trump in contempt on Tuesday for violating a gag order nine times, imposing $1,000 fines for each violation.
Manhattan prosecutors had asked the judge to hold Trump in contempt for alleged violations of the order barring him from speaking out against witnesses, jurors, and others.
Under state law, Merchan could fine Trump up to $1,000 or jail him for up to 30 days. The state asked the judge to fine Trump and instruct him to take down offending posts. Notably, the prosecutor in court last week said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office wasn’t yet asking for incarceration and argued that Trump seemed to be angling for that.
Prosecutors raised the former president’s posts on social media and his campaign website as violating Merchan’s order. One of the allegedly offending posts was one in which Trump purportedly quoted Fox News host Jesse Watters as saying, “They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury.”
