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Trump Has Officially Been Threatened With Jail Time.
Accountability? For Trump?! Really?!
Well, things were bound to catch up with Donald Trump eventually, right?
He’s been involved in not one, not two, but for criminal and civil court cases related to issues ranging from trying to overturn the 2020 election results to hush money payments to a porn star. It should come as no surprise of course that Trump has not shied away from talking about it at length, ignored repeated warnings, and continued to put the lives of people working the cases and jury members at risk.
Well, it’s gotten to the point where Judges are threatening jail.
Dareh Gregorian, Dareh Gregorian, Zoë Richards and Matt Korade with NBC News write:
“The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Tuesday held the former president in criminal contempt over a series of posts on Truth Social that he said violated a gag order barring any attacks on jurors and witnesses and warned Trump he could be jailed for further violations.
Judge Juan Merchan ruled Trump in contempt for nine violations of his gag order, with a fine of $1,000 for each instance. He warned in the decision that he would not tolerate further violations of the order and said “if necessary and appropriate under the…
