Judge Arthur Engoron said the website’s retention of the post was a ‘blatant violation’ of an October 3 order.
Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial judge has threatened to hold the former president in contempt, raising the possibility of fining or even jailing him because a disparaging social media post about a key court employee remained visible for weeks on his campaign website after the judge had ordered it deleted.
Judge Engoron did not immediately rule on potentially sanctioning Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, but noted that “in this current overheated climate” incendiary posts can and have led to harm. Trump lawyer Christopher Kise blamed the “very large machine” of the Republican’s presidential campaign for allowing a version of his deleted social media post to remain on his website, calling it an unintentional oversight.
The judge ordered Trump to delete the post, which he did, and warned of “serious sanctions” for violations. The email was sent to about 25,800 recipients on the campaign’s media list and opened by about 6,700, Mr Kise told Judge Engoron after obtaining the statistics at the morning break.In all, only 3,700 people viewed the post on Trump’s campaign website, the lawyer added.
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