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From the New York Post: A convicted drug dealer freed by President Trump was sent back to jail Friday after being charged with injuring a 3-year-old child, groping his live-in nanny, and other violent episodes.
Jonathan Braun, 41, squandered his chance at freedom after breaking the terms of his supervised release with a slew of Nassau County arrests in recent weeks, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said.
Trump commuted Braun’s decade-long sentence for orchestrating a marijuana distribution ring on the last day of his first term in 2021.
But Braun, who took a picture with Trump at one of his Florida golf courses in 2022, has been nabbed several times since, including for allegedly punching a man during a Shabbat dinner Saturday night at his Nassau County home, court papers say.
He then shoved the man’s three-year-old to the ground, “causing a red mark on his back and substantial pain,” according to a criminal complaint.
The convicted marijuana distributor— whose family has ties to Trump ally Charles Kushner — also menaced a man praying at a synagogue, groped his nanny’s breast while he masturbated, and assaulted a hospital nurse in separate incidents in recent months, prosecutors say.
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The New York Post does not explain how Braun is connected to Charles Kushner. Kushner is the father of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law.
At a hearing in Brooklyn federal court on Friday, Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto ordered Braun to be held without hail, saying, “The behavior is erratic… There’s the potential someone could really get hurt.”
Still defiant at the Friday hearing, Braun reportedly complained about his court-appointed lawyer and flipped off reporters sitting in the gallery.
Braun had posed for a photo with Trump at one his Florida golf courses in 2022.
“Jonathan Braun, whose sentence was commuted by Trump in 2021, was arrested on Long Island on charges of assaulting an acquaintance and his 3-year-old child. It is the fourth time he has been arrested since Trump freed him. pic.twitter.com/gqDxMrKtdz
— Leonard Lloyd (@LLLloyd1) April 3, 2025
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