Judge Arthur Engoron threatened to throw former President Trump in jail on Friday morning, responding to a Democrat political action committee (PAC) that claimed Trump’s campaign website breached a recently imposed gag order after Trump highlighted Engoron’s staff’s relationship with Senator Chuck Schumer. The unprecedented incident underscores the partisan nature of the trial against Trump, with Engoron appearing to take his marching orders from the far-left PAC known as “Meidas Touch.”
“In the current overheated climate, incendiary comments can and in some cases already has, led to serious physical harm and worse. I will now allow the defendants to explain why this blatant violation of the gag order would not result in serious sanctions, including financial sanctions and/or possibly imprisoning him,” Engoron said at the start of Friday’s proceedings.
Trump attorney Christopher Kise responded that the deletion of the website was an oversight made by the Trump presidential campaign, noting the former President had already deleted a similar post on Truth Social.
“There was no intention to evade or circumvent or ignore the order. I assure you that. I just know that this is a very large machine and this is one of the reasons, frankly, I don’t have social media,” Kise said. “But that’s been taken down. And we don’t have any other… there were no subsequent postings.”
The left-wing New York judge said he’d take the defense teams response under advisement but gave no further indications as to what, if any, sanctions he might impose, adding that Trump was still responsible for the site’s content, despite there obviously being no intent to skirt the order.
Meidas Touch has even taken credit for the judge’s actions, with a line at the bottom of their blog attempting to fundraise off the back of it.
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