Judge Fines Trump $10,000 For Violation Of Gag Order: ‘I Find The Witness Is Not Credible’

On Wednesday, a Manhattan judge fined Donald Trump $10,000 for violating an order against discussing court staff with the press.

Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against Trump, which claims he fraudulently inflated his company’s value over the years in order to get bank loans, ruled that Trump made comments about his law clerk, Allison Greenfield, in violation of a gag order that he had issued previously.

While speaking to television cameras, Trump called Engoron partisan, saying that the judge has “a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside him. Perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”

The judge ordered Trump to take the stand to explain his actions.

The former president tried to deny allegations and claim he had been speaking about his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. His lawyers chimed in and said that he referred to Cohen by “much worse names.”

Engoron rejected this explanation.

“I find that the witness is not credible,” he said, adding that he is “very protective of [his] staff.”

This is the second time that the former president has been charged for making comments about the law clerk.

Last week, Trump was fined $5,000 for keeping a post about Greenfield on his campaign website in defiance of the judge’s order to remove all reference to his staff from online posts.

Trump recently fell off the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, causing the former president to lash out at the publication.