Donald Trump at his civil fraud trial in New York.
Donald Trump at his civil fraud trial in New York.
  • Trump's testimony in a gag order hearing at his NY fraud trial "rings hollow and untrue," the judge writes.
  • Despite Trump's words, it was "unmistakably clear" that he intentionally violated the gag, he writes.
  • The judge stops short of calling Trump an outright perjuror.

Lest there be any mistaking how angry the judge in Donald Trump's New York fraud trial is, he has now memorialized, on paper, why he did not believe the former president's sworn testimony from Wednesday — and why he therefore gag-slapped him $10,000.