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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    Wow. Isn’t that like fining the regular Joe 2 bucks? Must be devastating and lifestyle-changing.

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      The first fine was 5k. This is 10k.

      Doubling can get pretty nasty, pretty fast. Let’s hope he sticks to it.

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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.

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        10’000 is to a billionaire what 10 is to a millionaire. Or cents to some random person.I hope that gets the point across just how irrelevant that number is.

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          Maybe this is like write-ups at work. Verbal warning, written warning, final warning, 3 day suspension, 7 day suspension, termination.

          So 5k, 10k, 100k, month in jail, 3 months in jail, in custody until trial is over.

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        Oh sorry. I didn’t know. Well, that changes everything. Poor guy, and i was mocking him 😣

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      Sure, but what is the penalty for not paying (as Trump has a long history of doing)?

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        I looked it up, and the penalty is imprisonment until the fine is paid. If the fine is never paid, it ticks down with time served (looks like double-digit dollars forgiven per day).

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      Let’s say Trump is worth $1 billion. (He claims he’s worth much more, but reports say he’s worth much less.) The super rich skew the average net worth, but it looks like the median American is worth $193,000.

      At those amounts, $10,000 for Trump is like $1.93 to the “median American.”

      I can only hope that the fines increase by a lot more or jail time starts getting added to the mix.