'Yech!' Reporter Maggie Haberman details all of Trump's outbursts in court

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, known as the so-called "Trump Whisperer," detailed some of the "colors" from the ex-president's damages trial in New York on Thursday and Friday.

Among many details, Haberman described Donald Trump "scanning" the jury and, at times, smiling at them.

"He wrote instructions for his defense team that he shoved their way," the report detailed.

Haberman pointed out that the behavior at the defense table is a good predictor for what will likely unfold when Trump makes it into court for his federal criminal charges.

Looking across both the E. Jean Carroll damages trial and the New York fraud trial, the reporter explained that both have put "stress on him."

"Mr. Trump fidgeted throughout his time in court last week as a jury was asked to determine how much he would have to pay for defaming Ms. Carroll for publicly assailing her following an earlier civil case in which he was found liable for sexually abusing her," the report recalled.

Trump was ultimately ordered on Friday to pay Carroll $88.3 million with both compensatory and punitive damages.

"He readjusted his tie. He looked at his hands. He leaned back in his seat, then forward, then back. A few times, he smoothed down the back strands of his hair rising over his suit collar," wrote Haberman.

She noted he was paying attention, particularly when he was trying to convey something to the jury or reporters watching behind him.

"During jury selection, he looked at all the potential jurors as they walked into the courtroom and pivoted in his seat to get a better view as they answered biographical questions posed by the court," she revealed. "Throughout the trial, Mr. Trump scanned the jurors’ faces. A few times, he smiled at them."

Judge Lewis Kaplan told the jury that the previous jury had already ruled that Trump "sexually abused" Carroll. He described the act, and Trump loudly proclaimed, "Yech!"

Carroll's lawyer showed clips of Trump's deposition video, and Trump's lawyer ordered that the whole video be submitted into evidence.

"And played!" Trump exclaimed.

"And played," his lawyer, Alina Habba said to the judge.

As Carroll testified, Trump audibly scoffed. He shook his head "over two dozen times," Haberman counted. That's when the judge threatened to throw him out of court.

Trump was warned by his lawyers going into the trial that Judge Kaplan was not the push-over that Judge Arthur Engoron has been.

"One of the most dramatic moments of the Carroll case came while Ms. Carroll’s lead lawyer, Roberta A. Kaplan," no relation to Judge Kaplan, "delivered her closing arguments excoriating Mr. Trump for continuing to defame her client even after being found guilty of such conduct at the earlier trial."

“Even if you don’t like a jury’s decision, you are supposed to follow it,” Kaplan said. “Those are the rules. This doesn’t depend on your politics, it doesn’t depend on who you vote for or whether you support a particular policy or a particular party. We all have to follow the law. Donald Trump, however, acts as if these rules and laws just don’t apply to him.”

It was enough for him as he loudly pushed back his chair and walked out to rant to the press. Haberman explained that overshadowing the trial didn't last long as the jury came back quickly with a high judgment.

Read the full write-up here.