On break after a hearing about whether he has violated gag orders with his posts, Trump posts a rant on Truth Social complaining about the biased judge and how his freeze peach is being suppressed. While knowing that the judge is waiting to make a decision about the whole thing, probably to see if Trump could actually go a whole day without violating the gag order again. That took all of five minutes. You can't make this up
I'm starting to agree with those who think Trump wants to rile up the judge in order to get put in jail. Then he'll bleat about unfair repression like the peasant in the Holy Grail hoping he'll get a sympathy vote, or some horde of maga patriots marching on NYC to bust him out of jail I guess.
The judge has allowed Trump to talk nasty about the judge and the prosecutor all he wants, so posts about the judge don't violate that order.
The gag order is only regarding their staff, families, the jurors, and witnesses (and potential jurors and potential witnesses).
Trump's lawyers argued among other idiotic ideas, with a straight face in court:
(1) Reposts by Trump don't violate the gag order (and the judge hammered them on this)
(2) Trump allegedly
might not have known he was violating the gag order with these posts (but the lawyer refused to represent that as a fact, and repeatedly refused to have Trump testify to that), so the defense got lambasted again
(3) Trump publicly attacking witnesses now if they had an old history of statements against Trump shouldn't violate the gag order as he claims to just be responding. And again the judge hammered the defense to provide exactly what Trump was allegedly responding to - and the defense had absolutely no answer.
No way Trump doesn't come out of this with a fine for violating the gag order and a stern warning, question will be exactly how harshly worded the judges order from this is.