NEW YORK — Donald Trump on Tuesday was threatened with thousands of dollars in fines — and potentially jail time — for denigrating anticipated witnesses and jurors in his hush money case in violation of a gag order.
Before the trial resumed, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan heard arguments from prosecutors requesting that the former president be held in criminal contempt for almost a dozen violations of his order prohibiting him from publicly attacking trial participants in the last week alone.
The DA’s office said Trump disseminated comments by Fox News host Jesse Watters that disparaged potential jurors and shared posts on his social media site calling his former fixer Michael Cohen a liar. Cohen is slated to be the…
