{"id":6634,"date":"2023-10-20T13:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:52:56","slug":"donald-trump-fraud-trial-judge-warns-of-imprisonment-over-gag-order-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/donald-trump-fraud-trial-judge-warns-of-imprisonment-over-gag-order-violation\/6634\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump fraud trial judge warns of imprisonment over gag order violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The judge overseeing Donald Trump\u2019s civil fraud trial admonished the former president\u2019s attorneys for a \u201cblatant violation\u201d of a gag order and suggested that violations could result in \u201cimprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Arthur Engoron said despite his clear order to takedown a post which was attacking his clerk online, \u201cI learned that the subject post was never removed from the website.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the post had been on the website for the past 17 days and was removed only last night, which was due to an email. The post was removed from Truth Social right after the court\u2019s gag order but it stayed on Trump\u2019s campaign website, DonaldJTrump.com.<\/p>\n<p>The judge hinted at serious consequences at the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will now provide defendants an opportunity to explain why this blatant violation of this gag order should not result in serious sanctions including financial penalties\u2026 and or possibly imprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Kise, Trump\u2019s attorney, apologised for the post and said that it was \u201cadvertent\u201d to leave it live on what he called a \u201cback page\u201d of Trump\u2019s campaign website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judge overseeing Donald Trump\u2019s civil fraud trial admonished the former president\u2019s attorneys for a \u201cblatant violation\u201d of a gag\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":6635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1784],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump-gag-order"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}