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.

  • 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.

    • three@lemm.ee
      0·
      8 months ago

      i think the moon is made of cheese

      I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN DEBATING WHETHER OR NOT THAT’S A FACT OR NOT SO DON’T BOTHER REPLYING WITH ANYTHING THAT MAY CHALLENGE MY WORLD VIEW

      • 520@kbin.social
        1·
        8 months ago

        Dude, they said they didn’t want to discuss something completely unconnected to their statement. His reported and actual net worth are two very different things.

        Don’t know what you think you’re calling out, but you failed.

      • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
        1·
        8 months ago

        I would, in fact, have zero interest in debating someone who believes the moon is made of cheese.