Donald Trump fined $10,000 for second gag order violation in civil fraud case
Justice Arthur Engoron on Oct. 3 barred Trump from disparaging court staff after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge's top clerk posing with U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer's "girlfriend."
During a trial break on Wednesday in the civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James concerning Trump's business practices, Trump told reporters, "This judge is a very partisan judge, with a person who's very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is."
Engoron, surmising that Trump was referring to his clerk, called the comments a "blatant" violation of the gag order. The judge imposed the fine after Trump briefly took the witness stand to take questions.
Wow. Isn't that like fining the regular Joe 2 bucks? Must be devastating and lifestyle-changing.
The first fine was 5k. This is 10k.
Doubling can get pretty nasty, pretty fast. Let's hope he sticks to it.
He'd have to do it
1612 times for doubling to touch just 1% of his reported net worth.(I have zero interest debating what his actual net worth is. Don't @ me.)
Edited to correct math.
That should take about a week.
Your math is bad.
16 total payments of 5k, 10k, 20k, ... is $327,675,000.
That is 1% of $32,767,500,000.
Trump's net worth is not reported as close to 33 billion anywhere, and never has been.
13 payments would be 1% of about 4 billion, which could be ballparked as about Trump's reported net worth at various times in history.
My math was indeed bad! That's what I get for doing it fast at work lmao. Thanks for the call out.
10'000 is to a billionaire what 10 is to a millionaire. Or cents to some random person.I hope that gets the point across just how irrelevant that number is.
Maybe this is like write-ups at work. Verbal warning, written warning, final warning, 3 day suspension, 7 day suspension, termination.
So 5k, 10k, 100k, month in jail, 3 months in jail, in custody until trial is over.
"Don't make me get HR to count to ten again!"
"7... 8... 9... 9 and a half... 9 and three quarters... 9 and four fifths..."
I'm bad at math, so you're probably right. Sadly so. Makes it even worse.
They should up it to a cookie million next time to give him a jolt
Is a cookie million different than a regular million? Like, does it have to be a million cookies? $1 million worth of cookies? A $1 million cookie made of, like, platinum and diamonds and whatnot? Like a Faberge Egg, but a cookie and worth $1 million?
What would the State of New York even do with that?
My guess is that comment was a victim of autocorrect and they meant cool
They are like regular millions but filled with frosting.
Are cool millions, like, mint flavored?
cookie monster has entered the chat
Oh sorry. I didn't know. Well, that changes everything. Poor guy, and i was mocking him 😣
Sure, but what is the penalty for not paying (as Trump has a long history of doing)?
I looked it up, and the penalty is imprisonment until the fine is paid. If the fine is never paid, it ticks down with time served (looks like double-digit dollars forgiven per day).
Let's say Trump is worth $1 billion. (He claims he's worth much more, but reports say he's worth much less.) The super rich skew the average net worth, but it looks like the median American is worth $193,000.
At those amounts, $10,000 for Trump is like $1.93 to the "median American."
I can only hope that the fines increase by a lot more or jail time starts getting added to the mix.