New York judge threatens to jail Trump for ‘blatantly’ violating gag order

Arthur Engoron questions former president’s lawyers after he failed to remove social media post about judge’s clerk

Former President Donald Trump, accompanied by members of his legal team, comments outside of his civil business fraud trial, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, at New York Supreme Court in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A New York judge threatened to imprison Donald Trump for “blatantly” violating a gag order on Friday after the former president failed to remove a social media post mocking the judge’s clerk.

As proceedings in the civil court began on Friday, the New York judge Arthur Engoron asked Trump’s lawyers why “this blatant violation of the gag order would not result in serious sanctions, including financial sanctions and/or possibly imprisoning him”.