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Since last fall, Donald Trump has sat on the defense bench in three Manhattan courtrooms. However, President Trump has displayed less than ideal table manners.
In all three trials, Trump’s judges have been so outraged by his verbal abuse that they have threatened to fine him, remove him from the courtroom, and even jail him.
Trump similarly earned the worst of these judicial reprimands by attacking those involved in his own trials with statements made inside the courtroom and, in some cases, just outside the courtroom. did.
President Trump’s biggest targets, the people who sparked his four harshest reprimands from the courts, are very different from each other. They include law clerks, advice columnists, high school teachers, porn stars, and more. However, they have many things in common.
Both gave President Trump a bad impression in front of the international trial reporters. Trump was so enraged by each that he lashed out, knowing the risks of consequences.
And all four are women.
Debbie Walsh, director of the bureau, said: “Women are his main targets, whether it’s for sexual assault or if we believe he’s trying to blackmail them.” Center for American Women and Politics.
Trump’s lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the matter.
“This is his modus operandi,” Walsh added.
President Trump’s Top 4 Rebukes
In Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial, he named Alison Greenfield, the judge’s top clerk, as one of his many political opponents.
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Alison Greenfield was the lead law clerk in President Trump’s civil fraud trial.
Trump attacked her so persistently in the hallway outside the courtroom last October that a judge called him to the witness stand, grilled her on the record about the incident, and later fined her $10,000. did.
State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron called Trump’s targeting of law clerks during a hallway news conference a “blatant and dangerous violation of judicial orders.”
Mr. Trump risked jail time if he continued to attack the clerk, who had been vocal in restraining defense attorneys during pretrial hearings.
Greenfield declined to comment for this story.
E. Jean Carroll
Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll.
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Next, we turn to E. Jean Carroll, the advice columnist who won a judgment of more than $90 million from Trump after she was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation of his reputation.
In a federal civil trial in January, Judge Lewis Kaplan threatened to throw Trump out of the courtroom after Trump repeatedly (and audibly) heckled Carroll when he accused her of defamation during testimony.
A federal judge chided Trump, saying, “It seems like he can’t control himself in this situation.”
Carroll, through her attorney Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge, declined to comment on the case.
Cowbell foretells President Trump’s third insurrection
Donald Trump faces a criminal hush money trial with his lawyers Todd Blanche (left) and Emile Bove.
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Turning to Trump’s hush money trial, prosecutors expect to conclude their fourth and final week of witness testimony next week, with star witness Michael Cohen scheduled to testify on Monday.
President Trump is accused of falsifying 34 invoices, checks and book entries in 2017. Cooked Books hid a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniel that illegally influenced the 2016 election, prosecutors allege.
As a criminal defendant, Trump has no choice but to attend the trial. During jury selection in mid-April, he made his dissatisfaction clear from the beginning.
One potential juror, a middle-aged high school teacher, was questioned about a video he posted online showing people dancing in the streets of a Manhattan neighborhood after Joe Biden’s 2020 election.
“It looked like a celebratory moment in New York City,” the school teacher told the judge after uploading the footage to her Facebook account.
President Trump lost his cool after being made to watch a video of at least one person happily ringing a cowbell, sounding the death knell for his re-election hopes.
“He was gesticulating and mumbling things. I could hear him. He was talking to the jury. We won’t tolerate that,” state Supreme Court Justice Juan Machan said, raising his voice. ‘s Todd Blanche to complain about Trump.
“I do not intend to intimidate jurors in this court. I want to make that clear,” the judge added.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was not selected to serve on the jury.
Then there was Stormy Daniels.
A courtroom sketch of Stormy Daniels testifying in Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
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Trump’s latest harsh judicial rebuke came this week, when he began heckling Daniels as she testified against him on Tuesday.
Daniels had just finished telling jurors about how he playfully hit Trump’s “butt” with a rolled up magazine and about Trump’s fascination with the porn business.
“Do you guys hate each other?” she testified that President Trump asked her, explaining that they chatted for two hours in a hotel suite during a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in 2006.
“Do you sleep together off camera?” she said President Trump asked.
Mr. Daniels had yet to make his most racist allegation when Mr. Marchand called his defense team into court and had Mr. Trump admit it in the presence of prosecutors.
“My client is understandably upset at this point, but he is audibly swearing and visually shaking his head,” the judge told Trump’s lawyers during a break in Daniels’ testimony. That’s derogatory.”
“There is a potential for intimidation of witnesses, and the jury can sense that,” the judge warned.
“I need to talk to him,” he told his defense team. “I won’t let that happen.”
The magazine-bashing — Mr. Daniels told jurors he was bragging about being on the cover and making fun of Mr. Trump — particularly galvanized the Republican front-runner.
“I noticed Ms. Daniels crumpling up the magazine and testifying about possibly hitting my client, then shaking her head and looking down,” the judge said of Trump.
“Then, Blanche, I think he looked at you when we were talking about The Apprentice. At that point he said another vulgar word.”
Defense attorney Susan Necheles questions Stormy Daniels as Donald Trump and Judge Juan Marchan look on.
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Why a woman?
Given the existence of women who openly oppose him, why is President Trump so unable or unwilling to restrain himself that he risks being thrown out of court or thrown in jail?
Will he lose his temper no matter what? Is he deliberately going on a rant thinking it won’t affect the poll numbers, perhaps even among women?
Walsh, of the American Center for Women and Politics, thinks the latter is more likely.
“He takes pride in being a strong, muscular man,” she said.
“Listen, I know he defended himself about the Access Hollywood tape by saying it was locker room talk and boys will be boys,” she said.
“But he really walks around thinking he can get women because he’s who he is,” she said.
Michael Cohen (center) is surrounded by reporters as he arrives in New York for grand jury testimony on March 15, 2023.
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Michael Cohen’s Honorable Mention
Under an April 1 gag order, Trump is prohibited from making statements attacking jurors, witnesses, some trial and prosecutorial staff, and their families.
Mr. Cohen, who once served as Mr. Trump’s corporate and personal lawyer and is now the top witness against Mr. Trump in his hush money trial, has become the most frequent target of Mr. Trump’s online and verbal attacks.
Trump is also being sanctioned for attacking the impartiality of the hush-money trial jury, which has a 7-5 male majority.
But despite fining President Trump a total of $10,000 for violating the gag order, Marchan said Cohen, who is as well-intentioned as possible, is the witness who least needs the protection of a gag order. He pointed out that there is.
“Just recently, on Wednesday night, he was on TikTok,” defense attorney Blanche told Marchand before the weeklong court session began Friday.
“He was in prison wearing a white T-shirt with a picture of President Trump on it, an orange jumpsuit, and discussing how he had announced that he was running for Congress,” the defense attorney said. sued the defendant.
“He said many times on social media that he was going to stop speaking, but he never actually did that,” Blanche added.
Marchand agreed that Cohen needed to be reined in and ordered prosecutors to once again instruct him to stop speaking publicly about Trump and the case.
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told the judge he had already tried many times and would try again.
“He goes after men, right?” Mr. Walsh said of Mr. Trump.
“But women hold a special place for him. He clearly feels entitled to use this kind of coercive and bullying power over women,” she said.
“He’s like a short-tempered teenager in some ways. He doesn’t even understand or respect, ‘Hey, I’m in a courtroom.’
Walsh said President Trump may be tapping into his own base, “some of the MAGA men and some of the MAGA women.”
“In their minds, he’s like a champion of white men who are responsible and don’t care about anybody,” she added.
“It’s hard to explain the women who support this kind of behavior, but there are women who will never leave him.”