Trump trial: Ex-president posts — then quickly deletes — message about witness schedule, hush money judge

Donald Trump deleted a social media post that fumed about how prosecutors in his criminal hush money trial are withholding their schedule of planned witnesses.

"I have just recently been told who the witness is today. This is unprecedented, no time for lawyers to prepare," Trump wrote in the post. But Steinglass noted that while they are keeping the order of witnesses close to the vest, Trump's attorneys have had the witness list, and the list of exhibits they will present in the case, for months.Israeli forces seize Rafah border crossing in Gaza, putting cease-fire talks on knife's edge

Earlier Monday, Merchan held Trump in contempt of court once again for his 10th violation of the gag order. He fined Trump the maximum $1,000 for the latest violation, adding up to $10,000 in fines for the 10 separate infringements."The last thing I want to do is to put you in jail," Merchan said to Trump. But"I will, if necessary.

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