• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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    Sometimes I wonder what he expects to happen? Both of his sons were always scheduled to testify, everyone else who testified were listed as witnesses from the start, like did no explain to him what that list of people meant? I can’t tell if this is just a trump thing, or an old person thing, or a billionaire thing where you can’t understand simple ideas like, " these people know something about the case, they will testify under oath about it." Also, $15000 fine for breaking a gag order doesn’t seem like the right punishment for a “billionaire”. If it were me on trial that would put me in debt, but Trump is a billionaire, $15,000 is not going to affect his life that much. It seems like the consequences need to scale based on the individual if you actually want people to follow the gag order.

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      but Trump is a billionaire,

      well. he says he is. In this one case, lets take him at his word and charge 15 billion instead.

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      He’s playing to his donors and staying in the headlines. He’s pulling in millions in donations every time he complains. It’s making a mockery of the judicial system and campaign finance to fleece his electorate. The gag order should have been much more broad.

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          His repeatedly engaging in various forms of fraud and intimidation provides a perfectly valid legal basis for those rights to be curtailed significantly.

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      Add an exponent after each one. Should have been 5000 the first time then multiply by an ever increasing number each time. 10000, 30000, 120000, 600000, 3.6m ,25.2m

      He would have to stop by 3.6 million since that is probably more liquid cash then he has available.