Timeline
The Mouth of Trump
Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP leaders are shamefully repeating Trump's hateful lies and attacks against the courts in what may be a violation of Trump's gag order.
The N.Y. judge has warned Trump that continuing to violate the court order prohibiting Trump from "making or directing others to make public statements" attacking witnesses, jurors, and the court's staff could result in jail time. Although this decision was upheld by a five-judge appeals court, it has not stopped GOP Speaker Mike Johnson and the MAGA elite from repeating Trump's attacks in what seems to be a coordinated effort to violate Trump's gag order.
A Necessary Punishment
Trump is fined the maximum amount allowed by law for violating a NY court gag order "to protect the integrity of these proceedings by shielding those fearful of reprisal.”
The President and the Pornstar New York criminal trial has exposed Trump’s dirty little secrets and he is not happy. When Trump is not complaining about his own attorneys or threatening to jail his enemies, he has been attacking witnesses and the Jury in violation of a court issued gag order. The Judge warned Trump that if fines are an insufficient deterrent, “jail may be a necessary punishment.”
Trump Jury Selected
The wild first week of Trump's New York criminal trial produced a full Jury, accusations of Jury tampering, and a man setting himself on fire outside the courthouse.
It only took one week to select 12 jurists and 6 alternatives in Trump’s NY criminal hush money trial. Apparently the strain of hearing average New Yorkers describe their often unflattering opinions of Trump was too much for the former President, who has been accused of violating the gag order to prevent jury tampering. At one point, the Judge felt the need to admonish Trump’s bad behavior saying, “I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom.”
Trump Arrested on 34 Felony Charges
Trump “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election."
Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of a hush money scheme to silence claims that Trump had extramarital affairs with pornstar Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. Manhattan DA Bragg said that Trump “lied again and again”, and that “the trail of money and lies exposes a pattern that, the People allege, violates one of New York’s basic and fundamental business laws.”
Trump Indicted!
A Manhattan grand jury has indicted Donald Trump, making him the first U.S. President to face criminal prosecution.
District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his team were investigating crimes associated with hush money payments made by Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels. Cohen went to jail for tax evasion and campaign-finance violations. In 2019, Cohen testified before congress that he "pled guilty in federal court to felonies for the benefit of, at the direction of, and in coordination with ‘Individual 1. And for the record: ‘Individual 1’ is Donald J. Trump.”