Originally a comment by maddog1129 on Spike.

This isn’t civil contempt, this is criminal contempt. Being adjudged in criminal contempt of court is a violation of DJT’s bond conditions. He is out on pretrial release because he posted a bond in each of his four criminal cases. A condition of bond in every one of those cases is not to commit a criminal offense against any state law or federal law. “Violate no law,” is a standard bond condition in every criminal case. DJT is now subject to having his bond revoked in those cases, and being held in pretrial detention.

With regard to contempt sanctions, judges generally use a progressive approach. Fine first is typical. Remains to be seen what comes second. The judge would be perfectly within his rights to order such a contemptuous defendant jailed for any subsequent violations of court orders. I heard one commentator suggest that the judge might hold any further punishment for contempt in abeyance until the end of trial. IOW, the judge could say, I will sentence you on these 4 new (another hearing is set for Thursday on 4 new counts of contempt), and any additional instances of contempt, at the end of trial. I will also take your contempt violations into account at sentencing in this case, if you are convicted. Thus, additional instances of contempt will not only result in sentences in their own right — limited as they are by New York last to a maximum of $1,000 and/or 30 days jail per violation — but also affect the ultimate sentence for any crimes of which the jury finds you guilty.

If it were up to me, I’d revoke his bond and order him into pretrial detention. Then I’d sentence him to 30 days per new contempt violation, to run consecutively.