Judge Warns Trump Attorney About Audible ‘Cursing’ As Stormy Daniels Testifies
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“You need to speak to him," Judge Juan Merchan told the former president's attorney. "I won’t tolerate that.”
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial warned his lawyer Tuesday that the former president’s repeated cursing in court was verging on witness intimidation as adult film star Stormy Daniels testified at length in front of the jury.
New York state Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan called Trump attorney Todd Blanche to the stand for a sidebar during a trial break and warned him about his client’s “audible” swearing, according to court transcripts.
“I understand that your client is upset at this point,” Merchan told Blanche, say the transcripts, obtained by The Washington Post. “But he is cursing audibly and he is shaking his head visually, and that’s contemptuous. It has the potential to intimidate the witness and the jury can see that.”
“I am speaking to you here at the bench because I don’t want to embarrass him,” Merchan added. “You need to speak to him. I won’t tolerate that.”
Blanche had a terse reply, saying: “I will talk to him.”
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