Donald Trump trial LIVE: Ex-president faces jail for contempt if judge finds he violated gag order in hush money trial

President Joe Biden will travel to Donald Trump's home state of Florida on Tuesday to target the former president on abortion.

While his probable 2024 general election rival languishes in a Manhattan courtroom, Biden will head to Tampa a week before the state's new six-week abortion ban goes into place.

'Many women in the southeast may have to drive for a day or longer to reach the closest clinic,' Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a call with reporters on Monday.

'There is one person to blame for this cruelty and it's Donald Trump.'

The president's re-elect team also argued Florida is in play for them this cycle.

The 12 members of the jury and their six alternates sat rapt with attention. For 45 minutes they listened to the lead prosecutor lay out the case against former President Donald Trump.

Matthew Colangelo delivered all the drama of a B-movie plot as he took them on a wild ride from a shady Trump Tower 'catch and kill' meeting to the extraordinary image of President Trump paying a loyal fixer by signing checks inside the White House, with a cast that included muckraking journalists, a now-disbarred lawyer who recorded his phone calls and a porn star.

Only one person inside courtroom 1530 looked unimpressed: The star of the show.

Trump leaned back in his chair, shoulders slumped at times. He did not look once at the jury as the case against him was laid out.

You did not need to be a body language expert to read 'nothing to see here' in his posture.

The trial could last for six weeks or more, as the jury hears evidence alleging that the former president falsified business records to hide how he had bought the silence of a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.

But Monday brought the first real insight into the strategies deployed by both sides.

And the court heard from its first witness, David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer.

This is what we learned from the first day of evidence in the case:

Donald Trump appeared to have violated his gag order again on the first day of testimony in his New York 'hush money' trial.

During an interview on Steve Bannon's network Real America's Voice, Trump attacked the jury.

'That jury was picked so fast. Ninety-five percent are Democrats. The area is mostly all Democrat. You think of it as a purely Democrat area. It's a very unfair situation that I can tell you,' Trump said during the interview.

Judge Merchan has now scheduled hearing for Tuesday morning to consider prosecutors’ arguments that Trump has violated his gag order in several previous comments - and that he should be held in contempt.

Welcome to DailyMail.com's live coverage from our reporters at Donald Trump's historic hush money trial.

The former president faces the prospect of going to jail if he is held in contempt of court on Tuesday morning.

Prosecutors have accused him of violating the gag order in the hush money trial at least seven times by attacking witness Michael Cohen and the jury.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has asked Judge Juan Merchan to fine him $1,000 for each post. The punishment could range from a warning to a stint behind bars.

After the contempt, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker will return to the stand to finish testimony on the 'catch and kill' plots allegedly coordinated between Trump and the tabloid.