Donald Trump trial LIVE: Ex-president faces more contempt fines for breaking ... trends now By Daniel Bates In Manhattan Criminal Court For Dailymail.com and Rob Crilly, Senior Political Reporter In Manhattan Criminal Court For Dailymail.Com and Wills Robinson In New York For Dailymail.com Published: 12:31 BST, 2 May 2024 | Updated: 12:36 BST, 2 May 2024 Viewcomments Advertisement 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 fines 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. Follow DailyMail.com’s live coverage from our reporters in the courtroom. Welcome to DailyMail.com's coverage of Day 10 of Donald Trump's hush money trial 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. Donald Trump threatened to put a celebrity publicist out of business if she helped Stormy Daniels sell her story in 2012, according to messages entered into court evidence this week. The bombshell claims come in instant messages between Gina Rodriguez and National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard. At the time of their exchange, interest in Trump had reached fever pitch. He was the clear frontrunner for the 2016 Republican nomination and Howard's then boss last week explained how he had agreed to hunt out negative stories in what prosecutors claim was a 'catch and kill' agreement to help his campaign. 'I also had Donald Trump call my office 4 years ago when Stormy Daniels was going to do the Trump mistress story,' Rodriguez wrote in April 2016. 'He threatened that I would never do business again in entertainment.' 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.' TOP STORIES Share or comment on this article: Donald Trump trial LIVE: Ex-president faces more contempt fines for breaking gag order and testimony from Stormy Daniels' lawyer All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility