Today Donald Trump was back in court where he is facing 34 felony counts related

to the hush money payments he paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet

about an alleged affair and specifically to keep Ms Daniels quiet in the lead up to the 2016 election.

Today the lawyer that negotiated that hush money agreement for Stormy Daniels Keith Davidson took the stand and

we're going to get to that in just a minute but the big news out of today's

trial happened before any witnesses actually testified. Today the judge in this case, Judge Juan Marshan, ruled on two

matters pertaining to Trump himself. One was that Trump will be allowed to attend

his very tall sons, to very tall son Baron's graduation on May 17th

so he can look forward to that. The other matter was also somewhat of a win for Donald Trump.

Today Judge Mershawn found Trump in criminal contempt for violating his gag order.

The judge ruled that Trump violated the gag order nine times as punishment

Judge Marshaon fined Trump $9,000 which is a thousand dollars per violation

and he warned Trump that the court will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful

orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an

incarceratory punishment.

In other words, in plain speak, if Trump continues

to violate this gag order, Judge Marshan

may throw him in jail.

Now, Trump already knew breaking the gag order could result in jail time but he

violated it nine times anyway. So in many ways Trump was treated a lot nicer than

most Americans in our criminal justice system.

And yet, after the trial wrapped the day,

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