Donald Trump was fined $10,000 on Wednesday after the New York judge overseeing his civil fraud trial said the former U.S. president violated a gag order for a second time.

Justice Arthur Engoron on Oct. 3 barred Trump from disparaging court staff after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge’s top clerk posing with U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer’s “girlfriend.”

During a trial break on Wednesday in the civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James concerning Trump’s business practices, Trump told reporters, “This judge is a very partisan judge, with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”

Engoron, surmising that Trump was referring to his clerk, called the comments a “blatant” violation of the gag order. The judge imposed the fine after Trump briefly took the witness stand to take questions.

  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
    542·
    8 months ago

    The first fine was 5k. This is 10k.

    Doubling can get pretty nasty, pretty fast. Let’s hope he sticks to it.

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
      441·
      8 months ago

      He’d have to do it 16 12 times for doubling to touch just 1% of his reported net worth.

      (I have zero interest debating what his actual net worth is. Don’t @ me.)

      Edited to correct math.

      • quindraco@lemm.ee
        91·
        8 months ago

        Your math is bad.

        16 total payments of 5k, 10k, 20k, … is $327,675,000.

        That is 1% of $32,767,500,000.

        Trump’s net worth is not reported as close to 33 billion anywhere, and never has been.

        13 payments would be 1% of about 4 billion, which could be ballparked as about Trump’s reported net worth at various times in history.

        • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
          5·
          8 months ago

          My math was indeed bad! That’s what I get for doing it fast at work lmao. Thanks for the call out.

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
      131·
      8 months ago

      10’000 is to a billionaire what 10 is to a millionaire. Or cents to some random person.I hope that gets the point across just how irrelevant that number is.

      • mycatiskai@lemmy.one
        8·
        8 months ago

        Maybe this is like write-ups at work. Verbal warning, written warning, final warning, 3 day suspension, 7 day suspension, termination.

        So 5k, 10k, 100k, month in jail, 3 months in jail, in custody until trial is over.

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
        141·
        8 months ago

        Is a cookie million different than a regular million? Like, does it have to be a million cookies? $1 million worth of cookies? A $1 million cookie made of, like, platinum and diamonds and whatnot? Like a Faberge Egg, but a cookie and worth $1 million?

        What would the State of New York even do with that?

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
      12·
      8 months ago

      Oh sorry. I didn’t know. Well, that changes everything. Poor guy, and i was mocking him 😣