NEW YORK, April 23 — Prosecutors asked the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial today to fine the former US president US$10,000 (RM4,780) for violating a...
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“Defendant has violated this order repeatedly and hasn’t stopped,” Conroy told Merchan. “The court should now hold him in contempt.” New York law permits Merchan to send Trump to jail for up to 30 days for contempt of court, but Conroy said he was not asking Merchan for imprisonment at this point.Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche said his posts were responses to political attacks by Cohen and not related to his former lawyer’s expected testimony.Merchan appeared sceptical of that argument and pressed Blanche to specify the attacks to which he was responding.
Trump was charged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with falsifying business records to cover up a US$130,000 payment shortly before the 2016 US election to buy the silence of Daniels about a sexual encounter she has said they had in 2006. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies such an encounter took place.
Blanche said Trump acted to protect his family and his reputation and accused Daniels of trying to profit from a false accusation that they had sex.publisher David Pecker, who prosecutors say participated in a “catch and kill” scheme to suppress unflattering stories about Trump and help him get elected.
The tabloid reached a similar deal to pay US$30,000 to a doorman who was seeking to sell a story about Trump allegedly fathering a child out of wedlock, which turned out to be false, according to prosecutors.
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