President Trump has been fined $10,000 for again violating a partial gag order after a dramatic courtroom scene in which the 45th president took the stand to answer a judge’s questions about his derogatory comments about courtroom staff. While the judge did not find Mr. Trump credible and levied the fine, he did not make history by sending him to jail, as he’d previously intimated he might do.  

The contretemps revolved around a statement Mr. Trump had made midmorning outside the courtroom. when he told reporters that Judge Arthur Engoron of New York supreme court is “a very partisan judge with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”