A comment from Donald Trump outside court has led the judge in Trump's business fraud trial to weigh whether Trump violated a limited gag order
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a break in his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in New York. Wednesday in his ex-boss Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial as the former president's defense team tried to undermine the credibility and question the motives of his onetime personal attorney turned adversary.
Habba tried to suggest that Cohen had angled unsuccessfully for a job in Trump’s White House — Cohen insisted he never sought one — and asked whether he had “significant animosity" toward Trump.“You have made a career out of publicly attacking President Trump, haven’t you?” Habba asked.for tax evasion, making false statements on a bank loan application, lying to Congress and making illegal contributions to Trump's campaign.
That remark came weeks after a Trump social media post about Engoron's law clerk, who sits beside the judge, prompted Engoron to issue the narrow gag order and tell Trump to take down the post. That order bars all participants in the case from commenting about any members of the judge's staff.on Friday after learning that the post had lingered on Trump's campaign website for weeks, though it had been removed from his Truth Social platform.
During his first day of testimony Tuesday, Cohen said he and key executives at Trump's company worked to inflate the estimated values of their employer's holdings so documents given to banks and others would match a net worth that Trump had set “arbitrarily.”
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