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.

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    The first fine was 5k. This is 10k.

    Doubling can get pretty nasty, pretty fast. Let’s hope he sticks to it.

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      He’d have to do it 16 12 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.

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        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.

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          My math was indeed bad! That’s what I get for doing it fast at work lmao. Thanks for the call out.

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        i think the moon is made of cheese

        I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN DEBATING WHETHER OR NOT THAT’S A FACT OR NOT SO DON’T BOTHER REPLYING WITH ANYTHING THAT MAY CHALLENGE MY WORLD VIEW

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          Dude, they said they didn’t want to discuss something completely unconnected to their statement. His reported and actual net worth are two very different things.

          Don’t know what you think you’re calling out, but you failed.

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      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.

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        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.

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      Oh sorry. I didn’t know. Well, that changes everything. Poor guy, and i was mocking him 😣