LIVE: Donald Trump arrives at civil court in New York for fraud trial

Donald Trump is set to appear in a New York civil court charged with fraud. The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York suggested that he could jail the former president for failing to comply with a partial gagging order. Judge Arthur Engoron said on Friday morning that Trump, 77, had posted “an untrue and disparaging post about my clerk” on his social media account and that he had challenged the former president about the matter, according to NBC News. “I ordered him to remove the post immediately and he said he did take it down,” Engoron said. “Despite this order, last night I learnt the offending post was never removed from a website. This is a blatant violation of the gag order. I made it clear [that] failure to comply will result in serious sanctions. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us