$1000 fine per incident? Can Trump wipe his diapers with a thousand dollar bill before giving it to the court? When will this asshat have real accountability?
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Even if they not going to jail him they should at least sequester him with no outside contact.
FOR REALS this time, if you do it AGAIN, ~~there will be consequences~~ we'll tell you to stop again!
I know this is a popular thing to be angry about, but this time there was an actual fine. The consequences are being ratcheted up. The judge is just taking as much care as possible to make sure that all the "t"s are crossed and "i"s dotted along the way, otherwise he risks the whole trial being thrown out in the end. Look at some of the other high-profile "this rich guy's guilty as sin but got off anyway" cases, they often boil down to some screw-up that doesn't disprove the overall case but still invalidates the trial. Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby pop to mind.
. The judge is just taking as much care as possible to make sure that all the "t"s are crossed and "i"s dotted along the way
Ive heard this for every single trial trump has faced. This strategy isnt doing shit but making sure trump is comfortable before facing no consequences yet again.
This is the first criminal trial. You haven't heard it in this regard before.
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A $9,000 fine is hardly a consequence for the rich.
Yes, but as I explained, the judge is proceeding by steps up the ladder of consequences. The next time Trump violates a gag order he can now say "I have demonstrated that fines are insufficient, and so I'm moving on to jail time."
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So he's going to jail right? Held in jail until his next trial date, like what normally happens to people held in contempt?
Next time, we totally mean it this time!
Put. Him. In. A. Holding. Cell.
In a hole preferably
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From what I have read, conditions of his release from the other trials include not committing ANY crime. Criminal contempt triggers this and Judge Chutkin is the most likely to jail him. Now...odds on that ACTUALLY happening...
0.000000000% unfortunately
I think you dropped a 0.
There's a 1 somewhere at the end of a nearly infinite list of zeroes.
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That's an interesting thought. It will never happen, of course, but if she decides he violated the terms of his release she could remand him to jail until trial. If that happens, then all of the work Trump has done to delay his other trials until after the election would end up costing him big time.
So $9K?
For the layman, that’s a lot, but for Trump?
I’m sure Trump doesn’t pay anyways. He’ll use the money donated to him by Cleatus the slack jawed yokel.
It’s the legal maximum fine for this, and there are still three other charges that will be discussed this week. It’s very much possible that Trump may see the inside of a jail cell, but that remains to be seen.
And even though it seems like a tiny slap on Trump's tiny wrist, it's still an escalation. So next time Trump flagrantly violates gag orders the judge can escalate more. If there's an appeal it'll be important to be able to show the judge didn't jump straight to the harshest penalties.
Let's be real, that's probably a lot for Trump right now, too. The man's broke.
His stake in his "media" company is (nonsensically) still worth billions of dollars right now. He probably won't be able to cash all of that out if he wanted to, but he is definitely not broke.
Lol he's not paying. Republicans gave him unfettered access to their election campaign funds
Drain em Donny. Keep going.