Donald Trump Plays Chicken With the Justice System
by Ben Meiselas
MeidasTouch
10/22/23
Donald J. Trump ReTruthed
Claudia Yohan
@parliamental011
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Judge Threatens Trump With Jail Mid-Trial After Democrat PAC Complained He Breached Gag Order
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Judge Threatens Trump With Jail Mid-Trial After Democrat PAC Complained He Breached Gag Order
THE FIRST LIGHT REPORT
Conservative News Box
OCTOBER 20, 2023
The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s bank fraud trial issued a stern warning to the former president for violating a gag order by failing to remove a website post attacking court staff.
Justice Arthur F. Engoron threatened to impose a $5,000 fine and possible jail time for future violations.
“In the current overheated climate, incendiary comments can and in some cases already has, led to serious physical harm and worse. I will now allow the defendants to explain why this blatant violation of the gag order would not result in serious sanctions, including financial sanctions and/or possibly imprisoning him,” he said.ACTUAL QUOTE FROM ORDER: "In the current overheated climate, incendiary untruths can, and in some cases already have, led to serious physical harm, and worse.
Donald Trump has received ample warning from this Court as to the possible repercussions of violating the gag order. He specifically acknowledged that he understood and would abide by it. Accordingly, issuing yet another warning is no longer appropriate; this Court is way beyond the "warning" stage.
Given defendant's position that the violation was inadvertent, and given that it is a first time violation, this Court will impose a nominal fee, $5,000, payable to the New York Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection, within ten (10) days of the date of this order.
Make no mistake: future violations, whether intentional or unintentional, will subject the violator to far more severe sanctions, which may include, but are not limited to, steeper financial penalties, holding Donald Trump in contempt of court, and possibly imprisoning him pursuant to New York Judiciary Law Section 753.END QUOTE
This marks the first time Trump has faced a substantial penalty for his incendiary social media posts.
Justice Engoron began the trial day by addressing Trump’s lawyers, emphasizing the seriousness of the violation in today’s heated political climate, where inflammatory comments can lead to harm.
While Trump’s trial is a civil matter, jail time was never a possibility, only substantial fines.
Defense lawyer Christopher Kise apologized for Trump’s oversight, attributing it to the sprawling campaign machinery and stating that there was no intention to ignore the order.
“There was no intention to evade or circumvent or ignore the order. I assure you that. I just know that this is a very large machine and this is one of the reasons, frankly, I don’t have social media,” Kise said, trying to deflect with some light humor.
“But that’s been taken down. And we don’t have any other… there were no subsequent postings.”
However, the judge reminded them that Trump remained responsible for this large operation.
“I will take that under advisement, but… Donald Trump is still responsible for the large machine,” Engoron reminded him.
Engoron had previously issued multiple warnings to President Trump about intimidating witnesses, maligning judges, and prosecutors.“I spoke to defendants on and off the record. Off the record, I ordered Donald Trump to remove the post immediately. Approximately 10 minutes later, Donald Trump represented to me that he had taken down the offending post,” he began.
“I then, on the record, imposed on all parties to his action a very limited gag order forbidding ‘all parties from posting, emailing or speaking publicly about any members of my staff,’ emphasizing quite clearly that ‘personal attacks on members of my court staff are unacceptable, inappropriate and I will not tolerate them under any circumstances,’” he recalled.
“Despite this clear order, last night I learned that the subject of the offending post was never removed from the website donaldjtrump.com, and in fact had been on that website for the past 17 days. I understand that it was removed late last night, but only in response to email from this court,” he went on.
Meidas Touch has even taken credit [https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-could-be-jailed-following-meidastouch-report-on-gag-order-violation] for the judge’s actions, with a line at the bottom of their blog attempting to fundraise off the back of it.https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-could-be-jailed-following-meidastouch-report-on-gag-order-violation
Trump Could Be Jailed Following MeidasTouch Report on Gag Order Violation
Trump failed to comply with a gag order set by a New York Judge, now he is facing the possible consequences
by J.D. Wolf
MeidasTouch.com
Oct 20, 2023
On Thursday, we reported [https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-never-removed-post-about-judges-clerk-from-website] that despite specific orders to remove a Truth Social Post that Trump made about a law clerk, who works for the New York Judge currently presiding over his civil fraud trial, the post remained up on his website.
"BEGIN QUOTE: https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump- ... om-website.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Never Removed Post About Judge's Clerk from Website
In violation of the Judge's Order
by Ron Filipkowski
Oct 19, 2023
ICMI: Truth from President Donald J. Trump, October 3, 2023. (1) Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump: Schumer's girlfriend, [DELETE] is running this case against me. How disgraceful! This case should be dismissed immediately!! instagram.com/[DELETE]; (2) Judicial Protest@JudicialProtest: Why is Judge Engoron's Principal Law Clerk, [DELETE] palling around with Chuck Schumer?
In court on October 3, 2023, in his New York fraud trial, the presiding Judge Arthur Engoron angrily ordered Donald Trump to take down his threatening and harassing social media post on Truth Social about his law clerk, and put in place a limited gag order that prohibited Trump from making disparaging or threatening comments, social media, or internet posts about any members of his staff or court personnel.
Trump complied.
Sort of.
Trump immediately deleted the post from his Truth Social account. However, the post remained up on his official website DonaldJTrump.com, where it remains to this day (Editor's note: The post was deleted following the publication of this article. This link brings you to an archived version of the website captured at the time this article was written). The social media post continuing to be up about the judge's clerk on Donald Trump's website seems to be a clear violation of the judge's order. END QUOTE"
Within hours of our reporting, Trump's team had deleted the post, but the New York Attorney General's Office notified the Court of this failure as the post had been up for 17 days after the gag order was first imposed.
The failure to delete the post was a direct violation of the Court's gag order, and this morning, Trump was lambasted by the New York Judge.
According to the Messenger, in court this morning the Judge blasted Trump for his failure to delete the post and asked why Trump should not face "serious sanctions" including fines or "possibly imprisoning him."
NY Daily News court reporter Molly Crane-Newman says Judge Engoron "asked Trump's lawyers why he shouldn't send him to jail or impose other sanctions in light of an incendiary post he ordered him to delete two weeks ago that remained online last night."
Trump attorney Chris Kise said it was an oversight.
The judge will rule later today on the matter.
"Molly Crane-Newman
@molcranenewman
Judge Engoron just asked Trump's lawyers why he shouldn't send him to jail or impose other sanctions in light of an incendiary post he ordered him to delete two weeks ago that remained online last night.
Chris Kise said it was an oversight. Judge will rule later. Story TK.
8:24 AM · Oct 20, 2023"
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump - 1dIn 2015 the Judge from the Trump case
gave a lecture to some college
students.
It's scary to think of the amount of
power this lunatic currently has.
1:51
Maze
@mazemoore
That followed Donald Trump Jr. reposting "Raheem" linking to article referencing "Engoron’s staff’s relationship with Senator Chuck Schumer." [1st violation of gag order]
Donald Trump Jr. reposted
Raheem. @RaheemKassam 4h
This is an absolute disgrace.
Arthur Engoron is acting on the orders of Democrat PAC 'MediasTouch'.
They're even gloating about it on their blog.
thenationalpulse.comJudge Threatens Trump With Jail Mid-Trial After Democrat PAC Complained He Breached Gag Order.
by William Upton
TheNationalPulse.com
10/20/23
Judge Arthur Engoron threatened to throw former President Trump in jail on Friday morning, responding to a Democrat political action committee (PAC) that claimed Trump’s campaign website breached a recently imposed gag order after Trump highlighted Engoron’s staff’s relationship with Senator Chuck Schumer. The unprecedented incident underscores the partisan nature of the trial against Trump, with Engoron appearing to take his marching orders from the far-left PAC known as “Meidas Touch.” “In the current overheated climate, incendiary comments can and in some cases already has, led to serious physical harm and worse. I will now allow the defendants to explain why this blatant violation of the gag order would not result in serious sanctions, including financial sanctions and/or possibly imprisoning him,” Engoron said at the start of Friday’s proceedings. Trump attorney Christopher Kise responded that the deletion of the website was an oversight made by the Trump presidential campaign, noting the former President had already deleted a similar post on Truth Social. “There was no intention to evade or circumvent or ignore the order. I assure you that. I just know that this is a very large machine and this is one of the reasons, frankly, I don’t have social media,” Kise said. “But that’s been taken down. And we don’t have any other… there were no subsequent postings.” The left-wing New York judge said he’d take the defense teams response under advisement but gave no further indications as to what, if any, sanctions he might impose, adding that Trump was still responsible for the site’s content, despite there obviously being no intent to skirt the order. Meidas Touch has even taken credit for the judge’s actions, with a line at the bottom of their blog attempting to fundraise off the back of it.