Trump held in contempt for violating hush money trial gag order — gets $9,000 fine and jail warning

• Judge Juan Merchan Donald Trump in contempt for repeatedly violating the gag order in his criminal hush money trial in New York.
• Merchan explicitly warned Trump that he could be put in jail if he willfully violates court orders again.
• The order was revealed before prosecutors resumed questioning Gary Farro, a banker who worked with the former president's onetime personal lawyer on a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
• That payment is at the heart of the prosecutors' case accusing Trump of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election.

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A judge on Tuesday held Donald Trump in contempt of court for repeatedly violating the gag order in his criminal hush money trial in New York.

Trump violated the gag order nine times in online posts targeting jurors and likely witnesses in the trial, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan ruled. He found that prosecutors failed to show that Trump violated one other post.

The judge fined Trump the maximum punishment of $1,000 for each of the nine violations, and ordered him to remove all of the posts by 2:15 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

Merchan also explicitly warned Trump that he could be put in jail if he willfully violates court orders again.

"Defendant is hereby warned that the Court will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an incarceratory punishment," Merchan wrote in his ruling.

Merchan read the order aloud before the trial resumed with more testimony from a banker who worked with the former president's lawyer on a $130,000 hush money payment to porn