So far:

  • Trump lawyer accuses judge, clerk of bias
  • Eric Trump back on the stand, and testy
  • Eric Trump testimony ends with questions about former CFO
  • Trial ends for the day after judge again spars with Trump lawyers
  • Eric Trump says he and his siblings are ‘collateral damage’
  • Trump appears to rip fraud trial in social media post
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    2 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Eric Trump is now back on the witness stand for his second day of testimony, and quickly started mixing it up with his questioner, Andrew Amer of the attorney general’s office.

    The judge said that “this idea that somebody notified me is absolutely untrue,” and while he was not familiar with the story, there are windows of time when judicial candidates are allowed to spend money on campaign activities.

    Court picked up this morning where it left off yesterday, with Engoron arguing with Trump’s lawyers about the role of his law clerk.

    The judge pushed back on the Trump team’s argument that he’s too “intertwined” with his clerk, who passed him notes and sometimes whispered to him during testimony.

    Especially in light of Trump’s social media post about that law clerk — which falsely suggested she was in a romantic relationship with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and triggered the gag order now in place — the insinuation about their having dinner together is what apparently provoked Judge Engoron.

    During questioning from the AG’s office in the afternoon, Eric Trump, the former president’s second oldest son, described himself as a “construction guy,” saying repeatedly: “I pour concrete.


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