AP Explains: Judge warns Trump of possible jail time for gag order violations
Donald Trump was warned again on Monday that he could go to jail if he keeps violating the gag order in his hush money criminal trial. New York Judge Juan M Marshan, in his most explicit warning to date, said that it is clear the legal maximum fine allowed of $1000 per violation isn’t working, the judge said to Trump. The last thing I want to do is put you in jail. You are the former president of the United States and possibly the next president as well. There are many reasons why incarceration is truly a last resort to me. To take that step would be disruptive to these proceedings, and the magnitude of such a decision, he said, is not lost on me. However, Judge Marshawn said that his duty is to the integrity of the trial and the integrity of justice, and he says that Trump has been undermining that with his repeated rhetoric about witnesses and about the jury in this case.