Threat of jail is 'the one thing' that could stop Trump's inflammatory posts: CNN legal analyst

CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams said that Judge Arthur Engoron may have to threaten to throw former President Donald Trump in prison to get him to comply with a gag order he issued this week.

Engoron hit Trump with a gag order after the former president spread an evidence-free claim that a New York law clerk in Engoron's court is Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) "girlfriend."

However, Williams expressed skepticism that Trump would obey this order and speculated that the judge would have to issue severe punishments to enforce it.

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"To have a serious sanction against a billionaire, you have to... sanction him hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions," he said. "And that's just not going to happen under the laws of court policy or procedure."

Williams noted that there was another option on the table that had promise, however.

"You could put him in prison," he said. "It's less likely but it's doable and, frankly... that's the one thing I think will work at this point... nothing has worked whether it is warnings, threats of gag orders or anything else."

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