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1 verified report published on April 25, 2022.
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For Trump, April 25 was one of those days when the old tactic of stalling, denying, and litigating everything just ran into a court that was not interested in the theater. The fine was not catastrophic by Trump standards, but it was concrete, public, and embarrassing — exactly the sort of paper cut that keeps turning into a headline-sized problem.
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A New York judge held Donald Trump in civil contempt on April 25, 2022, in the state attorney general’s investigation into the Trump Organization and imposed a $10,000-per-day fine until he complied with the subpoena.