D. Trump, former president of the United States. Photo by Peter Foley (Reuters/Scanpix).
Juan Merchan, the New York court judge presiding over Donald Trump’s alleged hush money hearing, fined him $1,000 for a breach of confidentiality charge and warned the former president that additional charges could send him to prison.
This is already the second punishment for D. Trump for provocative comments about witnesses since the start of the trial in the last few months.
Last week, he was fined $9,000 for nine offenses.
Judge J. Merchan speculated that he might have to go to jail for additional confidentiality claims, although he said that was the last thing he wanted to do.
Prosecutors investigating Mr. Trump’s money laundering case have been digging deeper into his surroundings after one of his associates learned about the former president’s reaction to his political career, which appeared in the last few days of 2016. presidential election campaign weeks.
Hope Hicks, a former White House official and long-time top aide to Mr. Trump, is perhaps the closest person in Mr. Trump’s environment, a witness in the Manhattan trial.
Because of her testimony on Friday, jurors were able to get an inside look at the chaotic stage of the campaign, when he was singled out in 2005. made a speech in which Trump brags about raping a woman without his permission, and as he and his allies sought to isolate several other potentially inconvenient stories.
According to prosecutors, the effort also included paying hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and a Playboy model who claimed to have had sex with Mr. Trump before he entered politics.
I had every reason to believe that this would be a huge story and that it would dominate the news cycle for the next few days, about Access Hollywood ra, first revealed in 2016. H. Hicks said in an article in The Washington Post. It was a terrible event.
Monday marked the start of the third week of testimony, with prosecutors closing in on their key witness, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and personal confidant, who has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to hush money.
Mr. Cohen is expected to face intense cross-examination by Mr. Trump’s attorney, who is seeking to undermine the jury’s confidence in him.
Mr. Trump has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying accounting and illegally concealing transfers to Mr. Cohen, who allegedly instructed Ms. Daniels that she would be the last in 2016. let’s campaign for weeks without sharing your statement about having an affair with a Republican.
D. Trump pleads not guilty and denies having sexual relations with any of the women in question.
The charges in that case are less serious than Trump’s three other criminal cases involving the alleged storage of top-secret documents in Florida after he left the White House and his involvement in the 2020 impeachment attempt. let’s collect the result.
However, the case for money will most likely be the only one that has reached the court before the presidential election in November.
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