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are many reasons why incar- ceration is truly a last the judge said. He worries about court and the Secret Service, as well as about the However, as much as he want to impose a Merchan told Trump directly that he if necessary and Last week, the judge found Trump vi- olated the order nine times, including a series of social media posts. A court spokesperson to USA TODAY Friday that the $9,000 for those viola- tions has been paid. This new violation is based on the presumptive GOP presidential nomi- comments about the jury during a phone interview with a TV program called the News, No According to a transcript the prose- cution supplied to the court, Trump said during the call, jury was picked so fast Democrats. The most- ly all Democrat.
You think of it as a just a purely Democrat area. a very un- fair situation, that I can tell Merchan said he beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump violated the gag order on three other occasions alleged by prosecutors. The judge said two of those alleged violations may be protected political speech, while a third may not have constituted a veiled threat against a witness. It was a dramatic start to a new week of a trial that capped Friday with emo- tional testimony from former close Hope Hicks. Hicks de- scribed her initial advice to the 2016 campaign deny, when a reporter reached out for comment about the infamous tape, in which Trump boasted that he grabbed genitals.
Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors allege he was covering up unlawfully interfering in the 2016 presi- dential election through a hush money payment from his Michael Cohen to p*rn star Stormy Daniels, who says she had sex with Trump. The former president denies that claim and has pleaded not guilty. For a second time Monday, second son Eric attended the trial. He sat next to Alina Habba, lawyer for his two recent civil trials.
Over the weekend, Trump attended the Formula One Miami Grand Prix in Florida with a host of celebrities. Before entering the courtroom, he talked about the news that Columbia University can- celed its graduation ceremony because of pro-Palestinian protests against Isra- el. He blasted Merchan and ignored a question about whether he would testi- fy. Reporters in Miami asked Trump about the trial, but he said he answer. have to say got a gag Trump said.
speak about it. Nev- er happened before, Controller talks Cohen payments The prosecution then began ques- tioning McConney, the former controller for the Trump Organization. Though McConney left the Trump Organization in February 2023, the company is paying for his lawyer. McConney said he had not spoken with Trump since retiring. Prosecutor Michael Colangelo took McConney through the nuts and bolts of paying Cohen after the hush money payment.
The questioning appeared to be an to support the alle- gation that Trump was sending checks to Cohen to reimburse him for the $130,000 hush money payment, and falsely labeled those checks as legal ex- pense payments. During opening statements, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche denied the checks were reimbursem*nts to Cohen for the hush money. Asked what position was, McConney responded that Cohen would say he was a lawyer, drawing chuckles in the courtroom. At some point, McConney said, he learned that Cohen needed to be reim- bursed through a conversation with Al- len Weisselberg, the Trump Organiza- former chief Colangelo showed a document la- beled indicating that Cohen wired lawyer $130,000. Some handwritten notes were related to repaying Cohen, McCon- ney said.
The prosecutor then displayed an email from Cohen with a typed-out in- voice to Weisselberg. The email said: Allen, Pursuant to the retainer agreement, kindly remit payment for services rendered for the months of January and February, Asked whether he ever saw a retainer agreement, McConney replied, did It was a moment for the to prove that the payments were not genuine ex- Cohen continued to send monthly in- voices for $35,000, totaling $420,000 for 2017. After the March bill, he emailed McConney nudging about the payment. McConney responded, check status tomorrow. DJT needs to sign was Donald Trump, who need- ed to OK the payment, McConney testi- Contributing: Deen, USA TO- DAY Judge threatens Trump with jail time Says ended violations of gag order Aysha Bagchi, Bart Jansen and Sudiksha Kochi USA TODAY INSIDE PolitiFact: Fact-checking claims in Wisconsin, Michigan.
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