Trump's civil fraud trial in New York to get down to business after fiery first day
After a fiery first day, lawyers in Donald Trump’s New York business fraud trial will move on to the more plodding task of going through years' worth of his financial documents
NEW YORK (AP) — Rebuking Donald Trump, a state court judge imposed a limited gag order Tuesday in the former president’s civil business fraud trial and ordered him to delete a social media post that publicly maligned a key court staffer.
Judge Arthur Engoron told all participants in the case not to smear court personnel, warning of “serious sanctions” if they do.
“Personal attacks on members of my court staff are unacceptable, not appropriate, and I will not tolerate them,” Engoron said after complaining — without naming names — about a defendant's ”disparaging, untrue and personally identifying post about a member of my staff."
A few hours earlier, Trump had posted a photo of Engoron’s principal law clerk, Allison Greenfield, posing with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., at a public event. Trump, the Republican front-runner for president in 2024, has repeatedly cast the trial as a political attack by New York’s Democratic attorney general, Letitia James.
