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Callum Jones and Lauren Aratani in New York

Judge fines Trump $10,000 for violating gag order and says he is ‘not credible’ as witness

Donald Trump outside court in Manhattan on Wednesday, with his lawyer Alina Habba, left, and son Eric Trump, right.
Donald Trump outside court in Manhattan on Wednesday, with his lawyer Alina Habba, left, and son Eric Trump, right. Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters

Donald Trump was briefly forced to testify at his civil fraud trial in New York and fined a further $10,000 after the judge found that he had breached a gag order.

The former president, who had already been fined $5,000 over a disparaging social media post about a key court staffer, was reprimanded for comments he had made outside court but denied he had violated the order, wherein he had been ordered to cease posting about court staff.

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