Justice Arthur Engoron on Oct. 3 barred Trump from disparaging court staff after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge’s top clerk posing with U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer’s “girlfriend.”

During a trial break on Wednesday in the civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James concerning Trump’s business practices, Trump told reporters, “This judge is a very partisan judge, with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”

Engoron, surmising that Trump was referring to his clerk, called the comments a “blatant” violation of the gag order. The judge imposed the fine after Trump briefly took the witness stand to take questions.

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    He’d have to do it 16 12 times for doubling to touch just 1% of his reported net worth.

    (I have zero interest debating what his actual net worth is. Don’t @ me.)

    Edited to correct math.

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      Your math is bad.

      16 total payments of 5k, 10k, 20k, … is $327,675,000.

      That is 1% of $32,767,500,000.

      Trump’s net worth is not reported as close to 33 billion anywhere, and never has been.

      13 payments would be 1% of about 4 billion, which could be ballparked as about Trump’s reported net worth at various times in history.

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        My math was indeed bad! That’s what I get for doing it fast at work lmao. Thanks for the call out.