Trump takes another step towards arrest after he repeated his assault on witnesses and jurors in the criminal trial

The judge presiding over the criminal trial in which Donald Trump is accused of paying a porn star to hide an intimate relationship he allegedly had with her threatened the former Republican president with jail time again on Monday after he ignored the prohibition to verbally attack witnesses and jurors in this trial, reports AFP.

Donald Trump, who aspires to a new presidential term this year, was sentenced last Tuesday to pay a fine of 9,000 dollars for violating the imposed ban. The court then found nine violations of this kind, thus imposing a fine of one thousand dollars for each of them and warned him that in case of recurrence, he risks imprisonment.

But now the same judge, Juan Merchan, fined Trump another thousand dollars, following “violation of his order by public comments on the panel of judges and the way in which it was selected”. At the same time, the judge once again warned the former president that any future violation of that provision makes him liable to “imprisonment”.

In the lawsuit, launched on April 15, Trump is accused of falsifying accounting records of the Trump Organization to cover up a $130,000 payment he allegedly made before the 2016 presidential election to former porn star Stormy Daniels for for her to keep silent about a relationship they allegedly had in 2006.

Before the opening of the trial, the judge forbade the former president to publicly attack witnesses and jurors. In messages on his social network Truth Social, Trump specifically attacks his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who has now become one of his bitter enemies and a key witness for the prosecution in this trial. Also, the former president suggests that the members of the trial panel are not impartial.

Trump is indicted in four cases and has already been sentenced to heavy fines in two civil suits, all of which he considers politically orchestrated against him by the Democrats of incumbent Joe Biden, whom he would face again in the presidential election in November . (Agerpress)