Trump, Called to the Witness Stand, Is Fined $10,000 but Spared Jail for Latest Insults to Courtroom Staff
A judge does not find Trump credible after he argues he was referring to Cohen, not to the judge’s clerk, when he criticized a person in the court as ‘partisan.’
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.
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