New threat of sanction in the heated debates of the criminal trial in New York of the 45th President of the United States. Judge Juan Merchan imposed a second fine of $1,000 on Donald Trump this Monday, May 6. “for violating his order by making public comments about the jury and how it was selected”, according to his written decision. He warned him that future offenses would be “liable to incarceration”. The former leader had already been fined $9,000 last week – or $1,000 per offense. He was accused of having publicly attacked witnesses and jurors on the sidelines of his trial. The threat of prison in the event of a repeat offense was also raised.
Prosecutors have been asking that Donald Trump be sanctioned since April 15, the date this unprecedented trial began. Still for his repeated violations of the ban on attacking key witnesses in the case. He targets in particular his former lawyer Michael Cohen or jurors, whom he implies are not impartial.
It must be said that the man who is also the Republican candidate in the November presidential election risks conviction and, in theory, a prison sentence for this affair – one of the four criminal offenses in which he is charged. He faces 34 charges, including falsifying his campaign accounts to hide a total payment of $130,000 to Stephanie Clifford, a pornographic actress and director better known as “Stormy Daniels.” And this in the home stretch of the 2016 election, won against Hillary Clinton. This sum would have been used to buy his silence on their affair maintained in 2006, when Melania Trump, his wife, had just given birth to their first child. Donald Trump denies any relationship.