Trump now has one strike left before being sent to the clink for contempt.
while previously discussing the possibility of his being incarcerated—is now several steps closer to seeing the inside of a jail cell than ever before.
On Monday, Merchan, the New York State Supreme Court jurist presiding over Trump’s criminal hush-money trial, issued his final warning to the ex-commander-in-chief, admonishing him to stop his ceaseless violations of a gag order meant to shield witnesses, jurors, court staff, and their families, from public intimidation and harassment.
“It remains this Court's fundamental responsibility to protect the decency of the criminal process and to control disruptive influences in the courtroom,” Merchan wrote in his ruling. And while there has been speculation that Trump could be brought to an unused or underutilized facility where he could “get an entire wing to himself and the Secret Service could sit around and watch him,” Horn said such a setup “would amount to solitary confinement,”
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