Trump handed $1,000 fine for gag order violation in hush money trial as jail time looms

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Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with payments made to stifle potentially embarrassing stories.

Former President Donald Trump speaks to media as he returns to his trial at the Manhattan Criminal Court, Friday, May 3, 2024, in New York. has fined him $1,000 for violating his gag order and sternly warned the former president that additional violation could result in jail time.

Prosecutors in Trump's hush money trial are moving deeper into his orbit following an inside-the-room account about the former president's reaction to a politically damaging recording that surfaced in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign., a former White House official and for years a top aide, is by far the closest Trump associate to have taken the witness stand in the Manhattan trial.

The trial enters its third week of testimony Monday with prosecutors building toward their star witness,, Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer who pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the hush money payments. Cohen is expected to undergo a bruising cross-examination from defense attorneys seeking to undermine his credibility with jurors.

 

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