Judge loses patience with Trump lawyers: 'Are you going to object to every document?'
Donald Trump's lawyers spent the first hour of the Wednesday trial objecting so frequently that it irritated the judge overseeing the New York Attorney General's civil fraud suit against their client.
During Wednesday's hearing, lawyer Chris Kise complained that the information contained in documents being shown to witness Ivanka Trump was irrelevant to the case, MSNBC's Lindsey Reiser reported outside the courtroom.
"Are you going to object to every document?" Judge Arthur Engoron asked at one point.
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Ultimately, the judge said that there was no jury in place, so it didn't matter.
"There is no jury here. It's just me," he said. "So you keep objecting to the same thing when really you just have an audience of one."
It was toward the end of the first hour that Ivanka began to be more evasive, said Riser.
"The lawyer for the Attorney General's Office brought up a lot of documents, for example, 'do you recall the Deutsche Bank proposed different interest rates?'" Riser explained. "She said, 'I do, but I don't think these were final because it wasn't consistent with my recollection.' Also, 'do you remember the guarantor said you must maintain a net worth of $3 billion?' So this is, again, getting to the statements of financial condition that many Trump family members certified as having accurate valuations, and this is what they would provide to the people that Ivanka knew at Deutsche Bank to get those terms, better terms, the AG contends, than what they should have been entitled to."
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