Why punishments for Trump breaking the gag orders have been useless — so far: reporter
October 29, 2023
MSNBC Daily writer and editor Hayes Brown explained to host Ayman Mohyeldin that the gag orders against Donald Trump aren't working and he's not certain that even the federal one will at this point either.
"If anyone else was attacking figures like Judge Tanya Chutkan and [special counsel] Jack Smith, the truth is there would be a lot more trouble than a gag order, no?" Mohyeldin asked.
Brown agreed that thus far the fines have been shockingly small compared to the wealth he has.
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"While you or I would be pretty upset about owing $15,000 to the court, Trump can remake that the issuing a fundraising email saying 'Can you believe what this biased judge in New York is doing to me?' That is chump change to him," said Brown. "If it were someone who is not a previous president violating the gag order as clearly as he has they would be back in jail. They would be seen as having violated the conditions of their release. They should not be out and able to make these threats against witnesses and members of the court."
In fact, Trump likely makes more than $15,000 with each email or text message he sends out.
Mohyeldin noted that Chutkan was even willing to entertain the idea of a stay of the gag order while Trump appealed, but after his attack on Mark Meadows, Smith filed a request to reinstitute the order. Sunday evening, Chutkan did just that.
The only fines Trump was given for breaking a gag order came in the New York Fraud case via Judge Arthur Engoron. The first was $5,000 and the second was $10,000. He hasn't broken the order in federal court yet, but
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