Former President Donald J. Trump was slapped with a gag order by Judge Arthur Engoron who wasn’t pleased over a social media post about his top legal clerk.
The 2024 Republican frontrunner appeared for the second day in Engoron’s courtroom in his civil trial on fraud charges brought by New York Attorney General Letitia “Peekaboo” James, a Democrat who vowed to use the powers of her office to take Trump out legally.
The left-wing jurist, whose bias was on full display when he mugged for television cameras on Monday, ordered the former president gagged over a since-deleted post to Truth Social showing Engoron’s beaming longtime clerk in a picture with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), something that Trump clearly felt was more proof that the deck was stacked against him.
“Schumer’s girlfriend, Allison R. Greenfield, is running this case against me. How disgraceful! This case should be dismissed immediately!!” Trump wrote with a link to her Instagram account.
In case you missed this, Manhattan judge Arthur Engoron today issued a gag order against Trump over a social media post that he shared referring to his law clerk as ‘Schumer’s girlfriend’ These are difficult days! pic.twitter.com/styVsIrDak
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) October 3, 2023
“This morning one of the defendants posted on (a) social media account a disparaging untrue and personally identifying post about a member of my staff. Although I have since ordered the post deleted and apparently it was, it was also emailed out to millions of other recipients,” the judge said in court.
“Personal attacks of any member of my court staff are unacceptable, inappropriate and I will not tolerate them,” he added.
“Consider this statement an order forbidding all parties from posting, emailing or speaking publicly about any members of my staff,” Judge Engoron said. “Failure to abide by this … will result in serious sanctions.”
Judge Engoron may soon be put into a position of following through on his threats, at least according to disgraced former lawyer Michael Cohen, a convicted felon who previously represented the former president.
Cohen appeared on MSNBC where he predicted that the “petulant child” defendant would violate the gag order by Wednesday morning.
(Video: MSNBC)
“How quickly will Donald Trump violate this gag order?” MSNBC host Katie Phang asked him.
“Probably before we all wake up,” Cohen answered. “You know, the problem with Donald is he’s like a petulant child. As soon as you tell him, ‘You cannot do this,’ he’s going to figure out a way to do it. It becomes his nature. If you tell him no, he wants to turn around and say, ‘I can do whatever I want. I’m more important, I’m bigger, I’m stronger than you, I’m gonna do anything that I want.’”
“I would have liked to have seen from Judge Engoron what type of penalties that he will impose. Rest assured, before this trial is over, there are going to be multiple violations by Donald because, again, he can’t help himself,” he said.
While the judge didn’t spell out what the “serious sanctions” could be, The New York Times reported that “experts said that if the former president violates the order, the judge could fine Mr. Trump as much as $1,000 — or even hold him in jail for up to 30 days, though the chances of that happening are slim.”
Judge Engoron seems to be enjoying his moment in the limelight and has been treated like a hero by the anti-Trump “resistance” media.
Judge in Trump civil fraud trial seen mugging for cameras he briefly allowed in the courtroom pic.twitter.com/nMqaK8aSdY
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) October 2, 2023
“This trial is a rigged trial,” Trump told reporters at the courthouse. “You saw what was just put out about Schumer and the principal clerk — that is disgraceful.”
“This trial is a rigged trial … You saw what was just put out about [Chuck] Schumer and the principal clerk — that is disgraceful.”
— Donald Trump, seemingly referencing his TruthSocial post calling the judge’s “clerk” in his civil fraud trial “Schumer’s girlfriend” pic.twitter.com/ZrBiEln1T8
— The Recount (@therecount) October 3, 2023
“It is so unfair that I am being tried under Section 63(12), which is unconstitutionally being used to punish me because I am substantially leading Crooked Joe Biden in the polls. It is a Consumer Protection Statute, and not meant, at all, for Election Interference purposes, which is what this is all about! Under this Section of the law, I am not even entitled to a JURY (there is no checking of a box alternative!).This was done by Radical Left Marxists design, and is not the America we know. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday after court.
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