A new verbal lapse from former United States President Donald Trump will have cost him dearly. The former American head of state received a new fine on Wednesday October 25 for offensive comments outside the courtroom. In front of the cameras, in the corridor leading to the hearing room, Mr. Trump said: “This judge is a very partisan judge with a really partisan person sitting next to him, perhaps even more partisan than him. »
Judge Arthur Engoron considered that Donald Trump had once again attacked his principal clerk, but Mr. Trump assured him that he was in fact targeting Michael Cohen who had been testifying against him since the day before in this case of fraud on the value of the Trump Organization’s real estate assets. ” The witness [Donald Trump] was not credible”decided the magistrate, before imposing a fine of 10,000 dollars.
On Friday, Arthur Engoron had already imposed a first fine of $5,000, for a publication deemed insulting about his clerk that remained on the DonaldJTrump.com site for seventeen days despite the magistrate’s request for removal. Informed of this new outing, the judge recalled that he had banned for the first time at the beginning of October any comments against the members of his team.
Donald Trump’s lawyers assured that it was a misunderstanding: the former president was referring to Michael Cohen, seated to the left of the judge, and not the clerk, seated to the right, they assured. But the magistrate wanted to hear the version of the former president himself and asked him to sit in the witness seat, for the first time since the start of the trial three weeks ago. Mine closed, Donald Trump responded “you and Cohen” when the judge asked him who he meant.