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Former U.S. President Donald Trump walks at New York State Supreme Court in New York, U.S., 30 April 2024.
Justin Lane | Reuters
Prosecutors on Tuesday questioned the former attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, whose hush money payment is at the center of the New York criminal trial of Donald Trump.
The attorney, Keith Davidson, took the stand after an explosive morning in the historic trial, when Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan held the former president in contempt of court for repeatedly violating his gag order.
Trump did so nine times in online posts targeting jurors and likely witnesses in the trial, Merchan ruled. He found that prosecutors failed to show that Trump violated the gag order in one other post they had flagged.
The judge fined Trump the maximum punishment of $1,000 for each of the nine violations, and ordered him to remove all of the posts by 2:15 p.m. ET …
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