Donald Trump was abruptly called to the witness stand and then fined US$10,000 ($15,800) on Wednesday after the judge in his civil fraud trial said the former president had violated a gag order. It was the second time in less than a week that Trump was penalised for his out-of-court comments.Before imposing the latest fine, Judge Arthur Engoron summoned Trump from the defence table to testify about his comment to reporters hours earlier about "a person who's very partisan sitting alongside" the judge.Engoron had already ordered all participants in the trial not to comment publicly about his staff. That restriction from October 3 followed a Trump social media post that maligned the judge's principal law clerk, who sits next to him.
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