A longtime Trump Organization employee testified in Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial that Mr. Trump had used his personal bank account to reimburse his longtime fixer for the money that bought a porn star’s silence.
Just to put the timeline straight: Marchan issued the gag order, trump retweeted 10 things that might have violated it, Marchan said that was wrong, trump said he hadn’t violated it, Marchan scheduled a hearing. Before the hearing occurred, trump again retweeted ?3? things that might have violated it. Marchan holds the hearing, finds trump in contempt on 9 of the 10 items - it’s at this point that trump’s retweets are established as mostly violating the gag order.
Today’s hearing was in regard to the ?3? retweets made prior to the first hearing. He’s getting a fine today because the [comical] argument would’ve been made that, at the time of those, ?3? retweets (before the first hearing), he still believed his actions weren’t in contempt.
I’m not sure if he’s done anything since that first hearing that might violate the gag order, but that’s when the clock started ticking. And, unfortunately, it only started ticking for those kind of violations. He might decide to try smirking finger-guns next, and argue that he was only just enthusiastically greeting an old friend :/
Oh boy. Surely the next time he’ll see a jail cell? Surely.
Just to put the timeline straight: Marchan issued the gag order, trump retweeted 10 things that might have violated it, Marchan said that was wrong, trump said he hadn’t violated it, Marchan scheduled a hearing. Before the hearing occurred, trump again retweeted ?3? things that might have violated it. Marchan holds the hearing, finds trump in contempt on 9 of the 10 items - it’s at this point that trump’s retweets are established as mostly violating the gag order.
Today’s hearing was in regard to the ?3? retweets made prior to the first hearing. He’s getting a fine today because the [comical] argument would’ve been made that, at the time of those, ?3? retweets (before the first hearing), he still believed his actions weren’t in contempt.
I’m not sure if he’s done anything since that first hearing that might violate the gag order, but that’s when the clock started ticking. And, unfortunately, it only started ticking for those kind of violations. He might decide to try smirking finger-guns next, and argue that he was only just enthusiastically greeting an old friend :/