Without naming Donald Trump, Engoron said that a defendant in the case “posted to a social media account a disparaging, untrue and personally identifying post about a member of my staff.̶…
File photo: While grumbling that he’d rather be on the campaign trail, Donald Trump has used the waiting cameras in a courthouse hallway as a microphone for political messaging.NEW YORK — A New York judge imposed a limited gag order on defendant Donald Trump Tuesday after the former president disparaged a key court staffer during his civil business fraud trial.
The gag order came after Trump and lawyers for both sides repeatedly went into court behind closed doors during a lunch break. The relevant statute of limitations rules out claims related to activities before a date in 2014, and rump’s legal team has argued that the time limit cuts off most of the case.
Donald Bender, an accountant who prepared the financial statements for years, testified that Trump’s company supplied the numbers that went into the documents. Each spreadsheet was marked “PBC,” for “prepared by client,” in big, red letters, Bender said.
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