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Donald Trump arrived at court on Thursday for his criminal trial regarding falsification of business records regarding the 2016 election as he normally does when he arrives he starts whining about how unfair he's being treated, how unfair everything is.

And then when he got into the courtroom, there was a hearing on further contempt for

Donald Trump's violation of the gag order.

He's already been held in criminal contempt

for nine separate violations of the gag order

and now there was a hearing that was held earlier today on four additional violations of the

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