Raw Story:
Trump hit with fine after violating gag order

Trump...hit with a $5,000 fine Friday after a judge discovered a social media post disparaging a court clerk on a campaign website days after a gag order was issued.

In a written ruling, Engoron said he was “way beyond the ‘warning’ stage,” but decided to issue just a fine because of Trump’s attorney’s claim that the post was inadvertent, the Associated Press reported.
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Trump hit with fine after violating gag order

Donald Trump was hit with a $5,000 fine Friday after a judge discovered a social media post disparaging a court clerk on a campaign website days after a gag order was issued.Judge Arthur Engoron had threatened to hold Trump in contempt and even jail him after the post was found. Instead, he issued t...

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@newsopinionsandviews 👺 Fining Trump with a $5,000 penalty is like giving a kid Halloween treats.
He's not supposed to be rewarded for breaking the rules & laws, Trump needs to feel the weight of accountability ⚖ for decades-long contempt of laws, rules, norms & values!

BTW, Al Capone then was sentenced to 11 years in prison for 5 counts of tax evasion after having been charged with 22 counts of the same offenses, just to repeat...
And Capone didn't have a lifetime as long as Trump's to defraud state & federal agencies.

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