Donald Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, rushed to the press on Monday afternoon to complain that Judge Arthur Engoron slammed his hands on his desk, reprimanded her and told her to "sit down," which made her feel like he was being mean to her.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg announced the segment after a discussion about a Broadway smash with Joy Behar.
"With the presidential election just about a year away, one party's frontrunner was in a familiar place yesterday, a courtroom," said Goldberg. "You-know-who testified in his New York civil fraud trial, and not surprisingly, he was a little, you know, defiant and confrontational, as was his attorney."
Goldberg made crying baby gestures, rubbing her eyes. The show went to commercial, and they returned to the topic.
"I have some observations," said co-host and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin after they returned from commercial. "There's a certain decorum that must be in place and intact in a courtroom. The judge is the arbiter of that decorum, as is the lawyer. That lawyer could not control her client. He lacked complete impulse control. It scared me that he had any — the proximity that he had to nuclear codes for our country. He also implicated himself in the litigation and admitted legal things that would go against him."
To illustrate the lack of impulse control, former Trump aide Alyssa Farrah Griffin recalled a moment when they were flying on Marine One when a Senator had said something snarky about him. She urged him not to respond because it was "punching down" and would only elevate the argument. Trump paused for a bit, but after jumping off of the helicopter, he hit "tweet" anyway.
Even Fox issued a reality check to Habba on Tuesday, saying she was headed for a loss.
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