Alina Habba

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron rebuked lawyers for Donald Trump after his legal team allegedly attempted to intimidate a witness.

During his New York fraud trial, Trump was accused of talking during the testimony of appraiser Doug Larson, who testified that he didn't condone the Trump Organization's method of valuing properties.

Former president Donald Trump lashed out at New York Attorney General Letitia James as he returned to Manhattan to attend his $250 million civil trial for fraud on Tuesday.

"This is an attorney general, Letitia, that went out and campaigned on, I will get Trump," Trump said. "I will get Trump no matter what. I'll get Trump. I promise I'll get him."

Patrick Birney, an assistant vice president for financial operations at the Trump Organization, delivered explosive testimony on Monday that drew a furious reaction from an attorney representing former President Donald Trump.

As reported by The Messenger's Adam Klasfeld, an attorney representing New York Attorney General Letitia James' office asked Birney whether former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg had ever told him that Trump wanted to see his net worth on his statements of financial condition go up from year to year, to which Birney replied, "Yes."

As Donald Trump's bank fraud trial enters its third week, observers are noting the former president's lawyers appear to be employing a deliberate strategy of dragging it out for a multitude of reasons, one of which includes baiting New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron in an effort to bolster an inevitable appeal.

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, the case filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James looks to be a loser for Trump's legal team, so they are stretching it out to create problems for his other trials -- by making him unavailable to appear -- and handing him time to raise more money to pay his mounting legal bills.

Trump attorney Alina Habba thanked New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron after he confirmed that Donald Trump would not have gotten a jury trial – even if defense counsel had asked for it.

Shortly after the trial began, Habba was accused of "forgetting" to request a jury trial on legal forms.

Yale historian Joanne Freeman found herself utterly appalled on Tuesday when she saw that special counsel Jack Smith felt the need to request special protections for the people who will serve as jurors at former President Donald Trump's Washington D.C. trial next year.

In his filing, Smith pointed to Trump's very long history of trying to intimidate potential witnesses on social media and requested that the court "implement several of the standard measures frequently used in this District to protect the jury, and impose additional clear guidelines for use of information regarding potential jurors."

Donald Trump and his lawyers privately conceded he would likely lose his $250 million fraud trial so, instead of mounting an actual legal defense, they are pursuing "Fyre Festival strategies," according to a report.

Sources told Rolling Stone the former president and his attorneys appear to be following the infamous festival's founding principle – in the words of its scandal-plagued organizer, "let's just do it and be legends" – and hoping to score political and public-relations points by angering the judge, harassing witnesses and turning the trial into a media circus.

The bench trial in New York State Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump got underway on Monday – and the tactics on show were predictable, according to a report.

James alleges that the Trump Organization seriously exaggerated the value of its real estate assets, and Engoron agreed with her in a late September ruling. Now, with the trial underway, it's a question of what types of sanctions and penalties Trump's company will face.

Donald Trump has been raging against the New York judge who will decide his financial fate, but his attorneys botched a crucial deadline that could have put the case in a jury's hands.

The former president has raged about not getting a jury trial while launching regular tirades against "Democrat judge" Arthur Engoron, who has already ruled that Trump and his two adult sons have committed fraud.

Former President Donald Trump's middle son, Eric Trump, raged about how offensive he found the smell of the New York courtroom where their civil trial for fraud is being conducted, Newsweek reported on Thursday.

"The courthouse I was in today, it's disgusting. It smells. You had cables running across all the walls. It's a disgrace and the fact that that's a representation of our legal system," he said. "You see the same thing at airports. I mean, how many times do you fly through an airport and you see acoustical airport tiles that are falling down, right?"

Judge Arthur Engoron lost patience with former President Donald Trump's lawyers on Wednesday when they appeared to be needlessly dragging out the proceedings at his civil fraud trial.

As reported by The Messenger's Adam Klasfeld, Trump attorney Jesus Suarez seemed to get on the nerves of both Engoron and opposing counsel during his cross examination of accountant Donald Bender, who for decades looked after the Trump Organization's books as an employee of Mazars USA.

Former President Donald Trump apparently expressed frustration in court on Wednesday after one of his lawyers got scolded by Judge Arthur Engoron.

As reported by The Messenger's Adam Klasfeld, the former president "audibly groaned" when Engoron scolded one of his attorneys for purported "performative questioning" by reminding them that there is no jury during the current bench trial.