Trump trial reside updates: Trump held in contempt of court docket for violating gag order

In a significant new interview with Time journal revealed on Monday, Trump refused to dismiss the potential of extra political violence ought to he fail to win the upcoming presidential election in November.

The former president stated that the response from his supporters “depends on the fairness of the election,” after having falsely claimed on a number of events that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him.

No proof was ever introduced to assist these claims, which had been rejected by judges throughout the nation within the wake of Joe Biden’s victory.

Mike Bedigan experiences.

With the court docket in recess on Wednesdays, the previous president is lastly getting again on the market at the moment to do some precise campaigning.

Who’s betting he’ll conjure up some extra gag order violations for Judge Merchan to think about on Thursday morning?

Here’s Oliver O’Connell and Alex Woodward’s round-up of the important thing occasions from one other busy day of testimony yesterday, together with a reminder of who “David Dennison” and “Peggy Peterson” are and why Michael Cohen resembles a cartoon canine.

While Trump’s marketing campaign was spiralling after a leaked tape caught him bragging about sexually assaulting ladies, an lawyer and tabloid editor brokering offers to maintain damaging tales about him out of the press thought his possibilities of profitable the 2016 presidential election had been over, his hush cash trial heard on Tuesday.

Keith Davidson – a former lawyer for grownup movie star Stormy Daniels who in the end negotiated the $130,000 sale of her story to Mr Trump’s then-attorney Michael Cohen – testified that curiosity in his shopper’s story “reached a crescendo” after the 2005 Access Hollywood tape leaked simply weeks earlier than Election Day in 2016.

Here’s extra from Alex Woodward, who’s overlaying proceedings for us at Manhattan Criminal Court.

The lawyer who represented a former Playboy mannequin who alleged a months-long affair with Donald Trump had supplied a “blockbuster” story to a tabloid editor, kicking off negotiations that helped his 2016 marketing campaign bury a doubtlessly embarrassing story within the months earlier than Election Day.

Jurors within the former president’s hush cash trial on Tuesday noticed a collection of textual content messages between lawyer Keith Davidson, who represented Karen McDougal on the time, and then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard, who brokered a cope with writer David Pecker to purchase the rights to Ms McDougal’s story for $150,000.

“I have a blockbuster trump [sic] story,” Davidson wrote to Howard on 7 June 2016, in line with messages proven in court docket.

Alex Woodward has the story.

He simply won’t study his lesson, will he?

Those posts all popped up on Truth Social yesterday not lengthy after Judge Juan Merchan, who will probably be contemplating 4 extra potential gag order violations when court docket resumes on Thursday, had fined him $9,000 for 9 offending social media posts and warned the defendant he might face jail time if he retains reoffending.

Incredibly, Trump was not deterred by the choose’s wonderful and is already fundraising off it!

Per Politico, his marketing campaign wrote in an e-mail to supporters yesterday:

“A Democrat judge JUST HELD ME IN CONTEMPT OF COURT!

“I was fined $9,000 for 9 gag order violations. THEY WANT TO SILENCE ME! They think they can BLEED ME DRY and SHUT ME UP, but I’ll NEVER stop fighting for YOU.”

And, as if that weren’t sufficient, after court docket on Tuesday the defendant additionally took the chance to assert, but once more, that the E Jean Carroll defamation ruling in opposition to him was additionally bogus as a result of he had by no means met her, doubtlessly defaming her but once more.

Here’s Alex Woodward’s report on the justice’s menace.

The felony defendant and part-time Republican presidential candidate referred to as into Sean Hannity’s present on Fox News final evening to denounce the pro-Palestinian protests on America’s faculty campuses, attacking the demonstrators at Columbia University for damaging the historic Hamilton Hall and praising the New York cops for breaking apart their occupation of the constructing.

He backed the Israeli army response to the Hamas terror assault of seven October, likening it to the US’s personal “War on Terror” in response to 9/11 and insisted: “You have to clean out the cancer.”

Even extra disturbingly, he additionally stated this (as standard, totally with out proof):

“I really think you have a lot of paid agitators, professional agitators in here too, and I see it all over.

“You know, when you see signs and they’re all identical. That means they’re being paid by a source.

“You know, these aren’t hand-painted signs where people would go to their basement and paint something because they really believed that. These are all signs that are identical that made by the same printer.

“And you know, when you see that that means there’s somebody at the top that’s paying, or a group that’s paying, and they’re doing a great disservice to the world, but they’re doing a great disservice to our country.”

You can learn Richard Hall’s report on the newest from Columbia beneath.

In her upcoming ebook, No Going Back, the Republican governor particulars how she shot her 14-month-old German wirehaired pointer named Cricket as a result of it was poorly behaved. She then disposed of the canine in a close-by gravel pit.

It is probably the one factor that has introduced Americans collectively, as Graig Graziosi experiences:

Joe Sommerlad experiences:

On the very first day of his felony trial on Monday 15 April, the Republican presidential candidate emerged from the courtroom to complain to reporters that Judge Juan Merchan wouldn’t enable him to be current for the milestone occasion in his son’s life.

His fury was echoed by members of the conservative media, with Fox News visitor Piers Morgan urging the previous president to danger jail time relatively than miss such an vital event.

But the choose really hadn’t stated something of the kind, saying he would rule on whether or not or not Mr Trump might attend at a later date.

Read on…

The first week of testimony at Donald Trump‘s hush money trial was the scene-setter for jurors: Manhattan prosecutors portrayed what they say was an illegal scheme to influence the 2016 presidential campaign by burying negative stories. Now prosecutors are working on filling in the details of how they believe Trump and his allies pulled it off.

Court resumes Tuesday with Gary Farro, a banker who helped Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen open accounts, together with one which Cohen used to purchase the silence of porn performer Stormy Daniels. She alleged a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, which he denies.

For his half, the previous president and presumptive Republican nominee has been campaigning in his off-hours, however is required to be in court docket when it’s in session, 4 days per week.