Former President Donald Trump was fined $5,000 by a New York judge on Friday for violating a gag order not to speak about any members of the court staff – and was warned twice about possible imprisonment.

“Donald Trump has received ample warning from this Court as to the possible repercussions of violating the gag order. He specifically acknowledged that he understood and would abide by it,” Judge Arthur Engoron said in his order Friday.

“Accordingly, issuing yet another warning is not longer appropriate; this Court is way behind the ‘warning’ stage.”

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    8 months ago

    Yeah, at first I was of the mindset that they just ignored the order and enough is enough, but they literally removed it everywhere else except the campaign site. Seems like incompetence and a fine makes sense.

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      8 months ago

      Some intern wrote a script to mirror Truth Social posts to the campaign site, and everyone forgot about it after he went back to school in September.