Donald Trump trial LIVE: Prosecutors reveal if they are seeking jail for ex-president for violating the gag order four more times

Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche argued that the order shouldn’t allow ‘unfettered attacks on President Trump’

'There is no dispute that political attacks and response to political attacks don’t violate the gag order,' Blanche said.

He claimed since Trump announced his candidacy 'there have been multiple attacks from Michael Cohen and folks Michael Cohen has on his podcast regularly to talk not only about these proceedings, President Trump’s credibility.'

Judge Merchan stated that his main concern with the conduct took place after the gag order was implemented.

Prosecutor Chris Conroy said that they are 'not seeking jail' for Trump's latest gag order violations.

However, they would like the 'highest fine' of $1,000 imposed for each alleged gag order violation.

Judge Merchan did not ask Conroy any additional questions.

Prosecutor Chris Conroy describes the gag order violations as the court hearing begins.

'He’s already been found to have violated the court’s order nine times and he’s done it again here,' he says.

'His statements are corrosive to this proceeding and the fair administration of justice.

'The defendant is doing everything he can to make this case' about politics.

Rob Crilly, Senior Political Reporter inside court:

Four rows of the overflow courtroom are filled with members of the public, who kept up a running commentary as they watched Trump take his seat down the hall just before 9:20 am.

'Ooooh, he looks angry,' said a lawyer, spending his day off to take in the biggest show in town.

'Look at his hair. Is it whiter than normal,' said a retired man. 'That must take so much work'

'Where do the Trump girls sit,' said another, as assistant Natalie Harp could be seen taking her seat two rows back from her boss on the live video feed.

Trump faces up to $4,000 in fines if he is held in contempt for the following comments:

Donald Trump addressed the cameras before heading back into court.

He was in Michigan and Wisconsin for rallies on Wednesday.

The ex-president claimed the 'enthusiasm' back on the trail 'has never been better.'

Trump said the economy is doing terribly and stated interest rates are not going to be reduced before the election due to inflation 'roaring back.'

He also praised police in New York and at UCLA for clearing college campus encampments.

'This is the radical left. this is a movement from the left, not the right,' Trump claimed. 'The right is not your problem, despite what, like, law enforcement likes to say.'

Trump dismissed the FBI director stating 'don't worry about the right, the right's fine. Worry about the left.'

He called them 'radical left lunatics' who 'got to be stopped now.'

Trump walked into the courtroom at a brisk pace wearing a navy suit as he braced for more contempt of court fines.

He sat at the defense table between his two lawyers, Emil Bove and Todd Blanche.

Trump stared ahead as photographers and videographers were briefly allowed in to take his picture.

His aides Margo Martin and Natalie Harp joined his support group for Day 10 of the trial.

It starts with a one-line instant message from a lawyer to an editor: 'I have a blockbuster Trump story.'

What follows is a blow-by-blow account of how a Playboy model sold her tale to the National Enquirer, casting a spotlight not just on chequebook journalism and supermarket tabloids but the case against Donald Trump as it unfolds in a cold, gloomy New York courtroom.

The details are laid out in a document presented at Trump's hush money trial last week, entitled People's Exhibit 176A.

It merited only a fleeting mention as 'tabloid king' David Pecker, the then publisher of the National Enquirer, explained how he agreed to help the Trump campaign in 2015 by buying up negative stories about the then candidate.

It was back before the jury on Tuesday when Karen McDougal's Hollywood lawyer appeared as a witness, describing how he negotiated a payday with National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard.

Keith Davidson detailed the convoluted plot that led to Stormy Daniels’ hush money deal eventually being paid for by Michael Cohen.

He told the court that National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard and Gina Rodriguez, Daniels’ PR, negotiated a deal for $120,000.

But then Howard backed out and refused to close.

The jury heard that Howard asked Rodriguez to call Cohen to get him to pay, but she refused to speak to him.

Davidson told the jury that Rodriguez then asked him to call Cohen and close the deal.

According to Davidson, Rodriguez told him: ‘It’s going to be the easiest deal you’ve ever done in your entire life. All you need to do is pay for it and talk to that a**hole Cohen’.

The deal had initially been for $120,000.

But after Davidson got involved, he asked for another $10,000 to pay for his time.

Davidson said that he used fake names for the deal, or what he called ‘code words’ which were to ensure ‘further confidentiality in case the contract was lost or stolen’

Daniels was referred to as ‘Peggy Peterson’ while Trump was ‘David De

nnison’.

Donald Trump woke up on Thursday fired up after back-to-back rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan.

The former president prepared for Day 10 of his hush money trial by warning there is ‘radical left revolution’ taking place in the U.S. over the violence at UCLA.

The 77-year-old also railed against the 'unconstitutional gag order' as he braced for as much as a $4,000 contempt of court fine for violation of the gag order.

He wrote: ‘THIS IS A RADICAL LEFT REVOLUTION TAKING PLACE IN OUR COUNTRY. WHERE IS CROOKED JOE BIDEN? WHERE IS GOVERNOR NEWSCUM? THE DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY IS FROM THE LEFT, NOT FROM THE RIGHT!!!’

‘WE CANNOT LET THIS RADICAL LEFT, CORRUPT AND HIGHLY CONFLICTED NEW YORK DEMOCRAT JUDGE INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024 — THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. THE USA IS TRULY A NATION IN DECLINE! REMOVE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GAG ORDER.’

Former President Donald Trump blasted the criminal and civil cases against him and railed against the presiding judges and President Biden at an energized rally in Michigan as he took a day off from court.

The ex-president's travel to Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday were the first campaign rallies Trump has held since the hush money trial against him began in New York nearly three weeks ago.

Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records for covering up hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Over the past two weeks, multiple witnesses have taken the stand to give salacious details of his alleged affairs and efforts to hide them before the 2016 election.

It is the first of four criminal case against Trump to go to trial.

'Every one of these fake cases is bulls**t,' the ex-president said to a boisterous crowd outside an airplane hanger. 'Every single one of them.'

Donald Trump faces more contempt fines for violating the gag order in his hush money trial when he returns to court on Thursday.

Prosecutors are seeking a $1,000 fine each for four comments from the ex-president that attacked witnesses, jurors and others closely connected to the case

The 77-year-old will also listen to more testimony from Keith Davidson, the lawyer who represented both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

He is one of multiple key players expected to be called to the stand in advance of prosecutors’ star witness, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer.