Donald Trump Trial LIVE: Ex-President Faces More Contempt Fines for Violating Gag Order and Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Testimony

Donald Trump faces more contempt fines for violating the gag order in his hush money trial when he returns to court Thursday.

Prosecutors are seeking a $1,000 fine each for four comments by the ex-president that attacked witnesses, jurors and others closely involved in the case

The 77-year-old will also listen to more testimony from Keith Davidson, the lawyer who represented both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

He is one of several key players expected to be called in the lead-up to the prosecution’s star witness, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer.

Donald Trump has revealed what he will do in November if he loses the 2024 presidential election and concerns about the integrity of the election persist.

His comments came after a rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The Midwestern state will be key to the presidential election and will be home to the 2024 Republican National Convention, where Trump is expected to be formally nominated as the party’s nominee to take on Democrat Joe Biden.

Donald Trump threatened to bankrupt a celebrity publicist if she helped Stormy Daniels sell her story in 2012, according to messages entered into evidence in court this week.

The claims come in instant messages between Gina Rodriguez and National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard.

At the time of their exchange, interest in Trump had reached a fever pitch.

He was the clear frontrunner for the 2016 Republican nomination, and Howard’s then-boss explained last week how he had agreed to pursue negative stories in what prosecutors allege was a “catch and kill” deal to undermine his campaign. to help.

“I also had Donald Trump call my office four years ago when Stormy Daniels was going to do the Trump mistress story,” Rodriguez wrote in April 2016.

“He threatened that I would never do business in entertainment again.”

Former President Donald Trump condemned the criminal and civil cases against him and railed against the presiding justices and President Biden during an energetic rally in Michigan as he took a day off from court.

The ex-president’s trip to Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday was the first campaign rally Trump has held since the hush-money trial against him began in New York nearly three weeks ago.

Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying corporate records for covering up hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Over the past two weeks, multiple witnesses have taken the stand to provide salacious details about his alleged affairs and attempts to cover them up before the 2016 election.

It is the first of four criminal cases against Trump to come to trial.

“Every one of these bogus cases is nonsense,” the ex-president told a rowdy crowd outside an airplane hangar. ‘Each of them.’