Former U.S. President Donald Trump was fined $10,000 (about 13.5 million won) for slandering a court employee. Former President Trump, who is currently in civil trial on charges of inflating his assets to obtain loans from financial institutions, was fined twice in a week for the same reason.
According to CNN, former President Trump, who appeared at the Manhattan District Court in New York on the 25th, met with reporters in the hallway during a lunch break and said, “Judge Arthur Engoron (who presides over the civil trial) is a very partisan judge, and there are more people next to him.” “There’s a partisan person sitting there,” he said.
Judge Engoron, who heard this remark, determined that the remark was a reference to trial researcher Allison Greenfield, who argued with former President Trump’s lawyer in court. When the trial resumed, former President Trump claimed that the ‘more partisan person’ was referring to lawyer Michael Cohen, who was his former confidant but testified against him during the trial. However, Judge Engoron did not accept this and sentenced him to a fine because there was a screen between the witness stand and former President Trump and Greenfield Researcher was closer to him.
Previously, former President Trump claimed that Greenfield was “Schumer’s girlfriend” by posting a photo of researcher Greenfield with Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer at a public event on his social media platform ‘TruthSocial.’ Accordingly, during the trial on the 3rd, Judge Engoron ordered the court not to publicly make disparaging remarks or post posts about court employees. However, when it was revealed that former President Trump did not delete this photo and text from his campaign website, Judge Engoron imposed a fine of $500 (about 6.75 million won) at the trial on the 20th. He was also warned that any further offenses would result in harsher punishment, but he again flouted them.
Source: Donga
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