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A New York judge threatened Donald Trump with "serious sanctions" for violating a gag order in his New York fraud lawsuit Friday.
The former president was slapped with the gag order earlier this month after a Truth Social post claiming Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron's clerk was the "girlfriend" of Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and the judge laid into Trump in court Friday after learning the post remained on his campaign website, reported The Messenger.
“I learned that the subject offending post was never removed from donaldjtrump.com and, in fact, has been on the website for the past 17 days," Engoron said.
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The judge then asked Trump why he shouldn't face "serious sanctions," including fines or “possibly imprisoning him.”
Trump attorney Christopher Kise insisted the failure was an accident.
Engoron had ordered Trump to delete his Truth Social post about his principal law clerk Allison Greenfield, but his campaign left a mirrored post online until the liberal Meidas Touch PAC flagged it, and New York Attorney General Letitia James' office alerted the judge.
The post has since been deleted.
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