Donald Trump, once again, lies.
He has been complaining for two days about the oral hearing being held in New York for fraud in the valuations of his assets, which exposes him to a fine of 250 million dollars and the possible loss of control of his businesses and a good part of his heritage. He maintains that it prevents him from continuing to campaign. It is an absolute falsehood. Since it is a civil case, he has no obligation to attend the trial. He has discovered, however, that he receives more media attention than if he held a rally and, furthermore, in the hallways he is happy to insult him, something that radicals like so much about him. He actually just moved the setting of the tantrums away from him.
Until this Tuesday, when Judge Arthur Engoron had enough. The judge presiding over the oral hearing required the former president not to attack or make malicious comments about the court staff, after Trump made a post on his social network putting the judicial secretary in the center of the target.
“Consider this statement as a gag order prohibiting all parties from broadcasting, emailing or speaking publicly about any of my employees,” the judge stressed. “Personal attacks on members of the court are unacceptable, inappropriate and I will not tolerate them under any circumstances,” he stressed.
“Failure to comply with this order will result in serious sanctions,” he warned.
Shortly before noon, Trump took the opportunity to attack Judicial Secretary Allison Greenfield. In her post there was a photograph of the official next to New York politician Chuck Schumer, leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate. With her usual scorn, the businessman accused of inflating her assets to deceive banks into better loan terms mocked Greenfield as “Schumer's girlfriend.” She then pointed out that the case against him should be dismissed.
The post was removed during the lunch break. It occurred after a closed-door meeting in the room where the trial is taking place. After that pause, the judge explained to those present what had happened and his decision. Engoron, a patrician-looking man with silver hair and good humor, has a reputation for being lax, characterized by maintaining a relaxed atmosphere in his courtroom. But this time he addressed the audience with gravity.
He noted that although Trump had deleted the message, his election campaign team had sent copies of the post in a derogatory email addressed to millions of people.
Thanks to the fact that there are always media eager to spread their insults for a supposed informative interest, even though they always repeat the same thing, Trump has been in the oral hearing for two days and promised that he will insist this Wednesday. He loves cameras. Throughout these days, once in the hallways, the outrages against President Joe Biden, the judicial secretary, against the magistrate and the attorney general of New York, Letitia James, who accuses the former president of an astonishing fraud.
Judge Engoron already ruled last week that Trump's company had committed fraud and, pending the appeal, he withdrew ownership of his stronghold buildings, such as the tower with his surname on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, where these reside. days. In the trial, the extent of the punishment is considered exclusively.
The statements and content on his social network have become a controversial issue in other of his legal cases. In the matter of the alleged conspiracy to annul the 2020 election results, prosecutors asked the judge in the case to decree a silence or partial gag order for his personal insults to the accusers and pressure on witnesses and potential members of the jury.
