Judge orders Trump to keep voice down as fraud trial testimony exasperates ex-president

A judge warned Donald Trump and others to keep their voices down following an outburst at his New York civil fraud trial Wednesday.

Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron admonished the former president after he threw up his hands in frustration and spoke aloud to his lawyers at the defense table as real estate appraiser Doug Larson testified – and prosecutor Kevin Wallace asked Trump's team to stop commenting on witness testimony, reported the Associated Press.

The judge then asked everyone in the courtroom to keep their voices down, “particularly if it’s meant to influence the testimony.”

Trump lawyer Lazaro Fields tried to establish that Larson had underestimated the projected 2015 value of a Trump-owned office building by $114 million, but Larson testified the value was not wrong but based on information he had at the time – which caused the former president to throw up his hands in exasperation.

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Fields also accused Larson of lying and pointed to a decade-old email exchange between the appraiser and former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney, who had cited him as an outside expert on the valuation of Trump properties.

Larson had testified that he never consulted with or gave permission for McConney to cite him for that purpose.