Judge Juan Merchan already found Trump in contempt this week and fined him. Are more relatively low-level fines the most that may come out of this latest hearing?

A judge may place Donald Trump 's former lawyer Michael Cohen under a gag order for his negative comments about the ex-president, two former federal prosecutors have said. Joyce Vance and Preet Bharara were reacting to social media comments by Cohen, who is now expected to be the star witness in Trump's hush money case in New York.

Even before Trump’s defense brings its case, government testimony has described Michael Cohen, a key hush money witness, as a “jerk,” “difficult” and “hopeless.”