Judge Puts Trump on Notice for Jail Time After Finding Him in Contempt for Tenth Time
“However, because this is now the tenth time that this Court has found Defendant in criminal contempt, spanning three separate motions, it is apparent that monetary fines have not, and will not, suffice to deter Defendant from violating this Court’s lawful orders.”
Judge Juan Merchan found former President Donald Trump in contempt of court for the tenth time, leading to a warning about possible jail time.
Trump faces 30 days at the most if he violates it again.
“Because the offensive statement was made prior to this Court’s Decision of April 30 and because the People are seeking only a monetary fine, the Court will, once again, fine Defendant, $1,000,” Merchan wrote in his filing.
Merchan continued: “However, because this is now the tenth time that this Court has found Defendant in criminal contempt, spanning three separate motions, it is apparent that monetary fines have not, and will not, suffice to deter Defendant from violating this Court’s lawful orders.”
Merchan the put Trump “on notice that if appropriate and warranted, future violations of its lawful orders will be punishable by incarceration.”
In court, Merchan admitted he worries about sending Trump to jail as he pointed to the Secret Service:
“The last thing I want to consider is jail,” Merchan said. “You are [the] former president and possibly the next president.”
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“The magnitude of that decision is not lost on me,” Merchan said. “Your continued willful violation of the court’s order…constitutes a direct attack…and will not be allowed to continue…It is not allowed to continue.”
🚨BREAKING: Trump held in contempt for tenth time.
Court warns "Defendant is hereby put on notice that if appropriate and warranted, future violations of its lawful orders will be punishable by incarceration." pic.twitter.com/fDMjjy1MBb
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How do we hold a judge in contempt of court for their behavior?
judges can be impeached and removed from the bench.
that is how it is done.
Almost never.
And then they get to be a Congressman.
Not where this judge is you can’t
Jailing Trump would be absolutely terrific. His poll numbers would outrace Jack’s beanstalk.
All those progressive judges.. they are legislating from the bench, with impunity.. This is a huge question…..
That behaviour being what exactly? Holding a an obvious criminal to account. FAFO
“Obvious criminal?” Sez who? You?
Post proof of this “criminality,” including convictions, or forever STFU.
BartE is incapable of shutting up. He’s somehow convinced himself that because he is not a US citizen, he gets to make judgements about the guilt of people using the standards of whatever shit home he hails from.
I took a really big BartE this morning. I was worried I’d have to flush twice it was so big.
AF a man with issues, so angry .. I’ll just call you Karen from now on. Snowflake
This is you admitting you know nothing about the trial, criminal convictions lol he has been held in criminal contempt multiple times.
As for evidence Peckers testimony was damnig, the documents are damning hope hicks testimony was damning, the bankers testimony etc etc. We already know that Trump said something like “can we delay the payment long although so I’m president them I won’t have to pay” that’s on record. This indicates that a) the payment was intended and b) ot was nothing to do with protecting his wife
Your ignorance is quite something
The actual post that the judge cited for violating the gag order was Trump saying the jury was “picked so fast” and was “95% Democrat”.
1) Trump has an absolute 1st amendment right to share his opinion on the trial. There is no “gag order” exception to the first amendment.
2) The gag order prohibits Trump from “Making or directing others to make public statements about any
prospective juror or any juror in this criminal proceeding.” But Trump didn’t make any statement about a prospective juror or any juror. He gave his opinion about the PROCESS of selecting the entire jury, not any single juror, and he gave his opinion about the makeup of the jury as a whole, not any particular juror. HOW DOES THIS VIOLATE THE GAG ORDER?
Why hasn’t Trump already appealed this to SCOTUS. This violation of Trump’s rights has nothing to do with the criminal charges against him. It has to do with the violation of his rights as an American citizen. Why hasn’t he appealed this to SCOTUS?
Probably because that’s not how the system works unfortunately. SCOTUS will just defer him to the appeals process but because he has no verdict to appeal he will get ignored.
Now of course if he was a Democrat and was protecte(D) then nothing like what we are seeing today would have seen the light of day.
SCOTUS should take this issue immediately, as it is destroying what little integrity is left in our judicial system and is actively being used to illegally pervert the election.
This is a case that screams out for immediate intervention by the SCOTUS, from any of a number of different angles.
But .. maybe the SCOTUS is just resigned to what is apparent to most, now – this country is dead. Our systems are hopelessly corrupted and evil people are running free abusing the citizenry with the full power of all levels of government, all in a demented, insane nihilistic drive to destroy this society and leave nothing but a smoking pile of ashes and a few savages running around in loincloths.
John Robverts spent his entire time on the Court working to make sure the SCOTUS could not be involved in almost purely political issues. When one arose (Obamacare tax vs fine), he punted to avoid the political.
And now the Democrats are dragging his court, and Roberts, near kicking and screaming into a purely political fight.
Procedurally, if a state judge incarcerated DJT for contempt, would that give the federal courts grounds to review?
The actual post was as follows “You know [the judge is] rushing the trial like crazy. Nobody’s ever seen a thing go like this. That jury was picked so fast — 95% Democrats. The area’s mostly all Democrat. You think of it as a — just a purely Democrat area. It’s a very unfair situation that I can tell you,”
This is a clearly violation of the gag order given it directly relates to how the jury was selected and is a) a lie and b) a clear attempt to damage the integrity of the jury and c) given his record and what his follows are like a clear incitement to violence.
LMAO.
Somewhere in Britain, a village has lost its idiot.
Oh Steve you lost buddy, not again. Seems to happen to you a lot. Maybe have a sit down and sober up buddy.
When you hear a dog whistle, probably you’re the dog.
You do realise that ad hominem isn’t an argument right. That when all you respond with is that you just sound like you can’t argue your corner
Cracking a joke — shame you missed it.
Should I choose to go ad homenim, I’ll do much better.
Meant to vote this ridiculous comment down, but accidentally hit the up button. Chalk it up to the side effects of chemo, I guess.
Sorry about your chemo, it’s unfortunate that affecting your critical thinking too
If the case can be made that the state judge has violated the plaintiff’s constitutionally protected right(s) without legal justification, then yes. Even to the point of criminal prosecution (highly unlikely, but…).
It might not have been the chemo. I just clicked on the down, the page moved in between the two as I clicked and you received an unearned upvote.
1. No right is absolute, they need to be considered against other rights
2. You think attacking the entire jury is a good argument, it’s not.
Your just legally illiterate
“You do realise that ad hominem isn’t an argument right. That when all you respond with is that you just sound like you can’t argue your corner”
I guess it’s a good thing “Your (sic) just legally illiterate (sic for no punctuation*) isn’t even close to ad hominem argument, eh?
* I’ll give you a pass for the English spelling of realize, but you do have a real problem with punctuation (the lack thereof) and, apparently, at least one homophone.
My guess is that Trump is actively goading Marchan into jailing him, which will bounce the whole gag order into federal court where it will be thrown out. All Marchan had to do was chew Trump out every Monday morning for his transgressions during the previous week, get his checkbook out, and pay $1,000/offense. But his ego won’t allow it to continue. And it is his ego that will destroy this orchestrated prosecution and Marchan’s participation in it. Cheers –
Hope your right
The judge has a duty to make sure the trial proceeds fairly, that means holding Trump to account where required. It may well be that Trump is dumb enough to goad him, Merchan more or less said that at the trial. But Merchan can’t take politics into account legally there isn’t much else other than send him to jail of further transgressions take place.
It’s testament to the lack of principles that MAGA has that they support such a man despite this.
Trump’s comments are too effective for Merchan’s liking, he hasn’t faced such skill before, and he reacts in the only way he knows how: he calls his illegal orders “lawful” and makes threats.
It’s clear that Trump’s comment does not make any comment about any particular juror, for example those two lefty lawyers that snuck onto the jury. Trump probably can’t mention that (under the illegal order) but I can.
The judge is the one who is influencing the jury.
If the judge cared about the jury being influenced, he would have sequestered them. But as is, the jury can watch all the TDS media it wants, POTUS can issue all the veiled threats against the jury it wants, and the judge is OK with that.
Of course you can talk about it. Everyone’s talking about it. Gagging the defendant in the Trial of the Century is laugh out loud ridiculous. Judge seeks to stick his finger in a dam that’s been obliterated by the river.
Lawyers on the jury? Wouldn’t be to sway a possible sane juror would it
Go for it.
If Trump is ordered to cool his heels in stir, he should smack down the leaders of both the Aryan Brotherhood and Black Muslim gangs in order to establish dominance and yard cred.
He’ll come out with a few tear drop tats on his cheek
Call the bluff! I know it’s easy for me to say as I’m not the one facing jail time
Stop reading my mind.
The jail time isn’t the problem, it’s the surveillance cameras which don’t work and the physical check on the prisoner which fails to be completed which allows the prisoner to be Arkancided (or is it Epsteined?).
When does her get placed on Double Secret Probation???
“How I Ended My Career”, by Juan Merchan.
The “judge” has told Trump he is violating a lawfully cover order. Some of us would view fining a defendant for exercising his/her First Amendment rights to be unlawful.
The judge’s order is definitely unconstitutional. But as demoncRAT lawfare has increased over the years, it is becoming apparent that unconstitutional doesn’t equate to unlawful.
“Lawful orders” 🤣🤣🤣
Every dictator (or wannabe) claims that his actions are “lawful”.
Including Trump.
“How dare you attempt to defend yourself in the media?”
Because he sure as hell is being prevented of defending himself in court
Explain how attacking the jury is defending oneself. Instead if regurgitating nonsense you might want to think through what the issues actually are.
Take a note on what the Left did to Palin. The toll on the personal finance front and emotional front was so high- she bailed on political life.
They intend to do this all the way through his next term in POTUS.
I’m not saying I want to see protections from lawsuits – as we should be doing this to them in spades because they deserve it.
Turnabout is fair play?
This Kangaroo court, Merchan, Bragg, probably the entire jury, and the whole of the government side are in contempt of America. This is one of the worst abuses of government power in American history and it doesn’t appear that our system allows for any sort of necessary relief from this kind of internal destruction. That is the worst part of all this. We can all see this Soviet Show Trial chugging along in its treasonous stupidity and rank evil but there doesn’t appear any sort of defense against this attack on the nation and our liberties.
Actually, the worst part is not just this ridiculously criminal trial (the government being the real criminals) but that we all know that none of the traitors involved in this are ever going to pay any price, whatsoever, for their historically destructive actions. Such an unbalanced system cannot sustain much longer.
The system doesn’t allow relief because it has never contemplated being used in this way.
The judge knows jailing Trump is going to have a “yuuuge” unintended consequence. Picture a picture of Trump sitting in a jail cell peering out the bars… next to a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King doing the same thing in Birmingham.
I am thinking more of Nelson Mandela or Lech Walesa-type heroism.
Oh grow up. Mandela served 27 years in prison for his political convictions. Trump spent a few hours in a whore house with Stormy Daniels.
Mandela was directly responsible for acts of terrorism. To be fair, he and his contemporaries believe that they had no other alternative, much like many in America are starting to consider today. However, he wasn’t just jailed for his “political convictions”
You have plenty of choice, you could start by finding a candidate that doesn’t have such baggage. Or maybe develop a coherent policy framework that doesn’t involve pure rhetoric, you know present an actual positive vision of the future. It all seems to be oh I don’t like this I don’t like that. Not much in terms of actual solutions to the alleged problems
I agree Mandela did have a choice.
The judge is a moron. He’s painted himself into this corner. I have no advice for him on how to get out, and if I knew a clever way, I wouldn’t tell him.
I am a bit concerned about that jury though. How did two lefty lawyers get onto it? Usually lawyers are not allowed onto juries. Merchan enabled it by refusing Trump’s challenges for cause, and so his team had to allow some very bad choices because the others were even worse.
Want to prove you’re a Fascist? Throw the leader of the opposition party in jail for talking.
Oh, and watch his poll numbers go even higher.
This is more of a platypus court.
Anyone else getting that ‘Don’t throw me into that Briar Patch, Brer Judge’ feeling?
Jailing Donald Trump for speaking out on this fraud of a trial will just make more people angry, not less. And I would like to see how NYC deals with armed Secret Service in jail with Donald Trump. Alternatively, I would like to see DHS deny SS protection to Donald Trump while in jail. Either way, it would be a political masterstroke…for Trump.
Since it’s a state court it would be state prison guards keeping the SS out.
States have no authority over federal agents. If the Secret Service wishes to setup at Rikers then they will setup at Rikers.
That’s pretty funny, but don’t give up your day job.
Trump is calling this corrupt hack’s bluff.
If the judge was actually objective and believed his gag order was lawful and would stand up to scrutiny, Trump would have been in jail weeks ago.
But he’s a political hack that only cares about trying to use this sham ‘trial’ to politically damage Trump, and knows that throwing him in jail would politically benefit Trump, so he doesn’t do it.
Trump is calling his bluff, and this corrupt incompetent moron can’t take it.
The problem for the judge is that there is no crime. The fact that the judge hasn’t thrown this farce out of court speaks volumes about the judge’s political hackery.
That’s why the prosecution snuck two lefty lawyers onto the jury. To persist in repeating the tortured legal argument that has landed this case in court, and debate with any jurors who just want to throw the whole thing out because it’s nonsense.
Go ahead, throw them in jail. Prove his point about how corrupt you are
The DA has no criminal case and has not listed it to the Judge, Jury, and to Trump. This trial should not be going on without the crime being know to Trump and his Lawyers, and also the Judge. The Judge by allowing this and the gag order is showing that he is corrupt.
If the Judge puts Trump in jail for violating the gag order there will be major problems that the Judge will face and Trump will gain in the polls. The Secret Service will likely not allow Trump to be jailed no matter what the Judge wants.
The crime is alleged to be paying hush money and not reflecting it on his financial statements (a misdemeanor) to influence an election (which can elevate it to a felony), on multiple copies of the same data (a count of felony for each one of those documents).
In other words, something no reasonable person would bring into court. But reasonableness is not required of the far-left, until somehow the national mood changes and such persecutors stop feeling empowered. That may be starting to happen. Trump doesn’t have to do anything proactive in this process, and as far as I know he isn’t doing much and is complying with the ridiculous gag orders. The judge is doing it to himself.
Trump may as well go ahead and keep pushing. The Communists will eventually jail him anyway since that is what the genocidal maniacs in the Party’s base wants. It is only a question of “when”. This case may not be the most favorable ground for Trump, but Communists are giving the game away by seeking to jail Trump rather than do what they did in 2020: flood the ballot boxes with enough fake ballots to drag Biden* over the finish line.
Like it or not, we are heading towards civil war or Communist dictatorship – or both. If it is inevitable that America experiences the sick, twisted pathologies that the rest of the world suffers from, let’s just get the show started.
I almost would double dog dare him to do it.
They are itching for Marxism takeover or a Civil War II
I’ll take Civil War II for $200
It will be great theater in the round.
Shouldn’t a show trial have a higher dais? Maybe even a wall-sized jumbotron behind the inquisitors?
No wonder nobody’s taking this seriously.
Phuck that criminal pretending to be a judge.
I can see the headline now:
“Trump’s poll numbers spike with his ‘Letter from New York Jail'”
dging: Why hasn’t he appealed this to SCOTUS?
Trump has appealed the gag order. He asked the appeals court to delay the trial until the appeal has been decided, but the state appeals court judge rejected the delay. While the state appeal on the gag order is pending, a similar appeal during the civil fraud trial was rejected. Also, a U.S. appeals court largely upheld a gag order in the federal criminal case that accuses Trump of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. The Supreme Court has generally upheld gag orders if they are the least restrictive means possible to ensure a fair trial.
artichoke: Trump probably can’t mention that (under the illegal order) but I can.
You sure can. And Trump had an opportunity to contest jurors during voir dire (the process of selecting jurors). Trump can also directly confront witnesses against him in court within the rules of evidence.
JG: The DA has no criminal case and has not listed it to the Judge, Jury, and to Trump.
The felony indictment is under New York Law § 175-10, which makes falsification (New York Executive Law § 63-12) a felony when the intent is commit or conceal another crime (New York Law § 17-152).
What other crime?
IIRC an alleged misdemeanor violation of Campaign Finance law/regulations regarding a campaign’s spending and reporting thereof. This violation has always heretofore been settled by the Federal Election Commission with an administrative fine and admonishment. It is noteworthy that the DoJ considered whether action was necessary and decided no action was needed or undertaken. Testimony adduced at this trial was that the payments were not ordered by Trump and were made from non-campaign sources (mostly Trump’s personal checking account, but about four initial payments were made from some sort of personal trust fund).
It is further worth noting that the law involves “falsification of business records”. As testimony is Cohen submitted invoices and the invoices were paid by Trump’s personal funds, not sure who’s, or which, business records were falsified. Maybe that will come out at trial, but it hasn’t seemed to have been revealed in detail by the prosecution yet.
Edward: This violation has always heretofore been settled by the Federal Election Commission with an administrative fine and admonishment.
That’s federal. The underlying crime in the Trump trial is New York Law § 17-152: “Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means and which conspiracy is acted upon by one or more of the parties thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”
Edward: It is further worth noting that the law involves “falsification of business records”.
The payments were entered into the Trump Organization’s general ledger as legal expenses.
As presumably you know well, the voir dire process relies on judges allowing challenges for cause when they are reasonable. It’s reported (although Trump isn’t even allowed to fill in details, so I feel entitled to assume he’s in the right) that the judge was rejecting reasonable challenges for cause, forcing Trump’s side to use up limited peremptory challenges.
They ended up with two lefty lawyers on this jury, that hinges on a heaping of several arcane legal arguments on top of one another to even be in court at all. And those lawyers are presumably there to knock down any sentiment in the jury that this is all crap and they might have done the same or worse in Trump’s shoes, so just agree on not-guilty and go home.
Your perfunctory statement that Trump had the right of voir dire says more about you than about the subject.
artichoke: As presumably you know well, the voir dire process relies on judges allowing challenges for cause when they are reasonable.
Voir dire is governed by rules just like any other court process.
artichoke: It’s reported (although Trump isn’t even allowed to fill in details, so I feel entitled to assume he’s in the right) that the judge was rejecting reasonable challenges for cause, forcing Trump’s side to use up limited peremptory challenges.
Well, assuming what you want is your privilege but not an argument.
artichoke: Your perfunctory statement that Trump had the right of voir dire says more about you than about the subject.
How did you think the legal system worked?
Progressives alway overreach.
Putting Trump in jail will ensure his reelection better than anything the Republicans can do!
and if he isn’t reelected after that, there truly could be a shooting civil war.
What this amounts to is one tiny part of a plot being carried out by an organized criminal enterprise against the people of the United States of America. From the judges to the media to the members of congress to the intelligence services and more, all should be arrested and tried. Once the links between have been established the common purpose is self evident and the question becomes “have you engaged in activity to undermine or usurp the Constitution of the United States”. Then it’s into the wood chipper!
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