Arthur Engoron

Reflecting on Donald Trump's appearance in a Manhattan courtroom where he was sworn in and immediately launched furious attacks on Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James, trial attorney Shan Wu claims it would have been understandable for a motion to be made to have the former president's competency tested.

In a column for the Daily Beast, Wu complimented the state's trial strategy to let the former president rant and rave, which led to multiple admonishments from Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the $250 million financial fraud trial.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace compared Donald Trump to a toddler throwing a tantrum while in court Monday. That's exactly how Judge Arthur Engoron treated Trump, she explained. At the same time, he helped the AG prove a big piece of her case.

"Are you done?" she said, impersonating Engoron. "This is incredible."

The political histrionics are falling flat.

Some legal experts are throwing popcorn at the performance inside and outside of the Lower Manhattan courtroom by former President Donald Trump's esquires, causing some to wonder if they are out of their depth.

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled on Monday that he would not lift a limited gag order placed on Donald Trump's attorneys.

After Trump personally testified in his $250 million fraud trial, his attorneys offered a motion to retract a gag order preventing them from referring to court staff. Trump's attorneys have claimed that a biased court clerk was influencing the judge.

The Donald didn't deny it.

Grilled on the stand Monday by the New York Attorney General's prosecutors, Donald Trump appeared to concur that the price tags on his real estate portfolio submitted by his company were meant to "induce" loans from lenders, according to a report.

Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba attacked Judge Arthur Engoron Monday for not allowing the jury to rule on the $250 million-plus lawsuit, even though the former president's legal team never requested one, according to NBC News's senior legal correspondent.

Habba, who Raw Story reported dropped the ball on making that jury request, spoke to Laura Jarrett outside the New York courthouse shortly after a tumultuous morning saw Trump testify in the civil trial.

Trump attorney Alina Habba blew up at New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron after he admonished Donald Trump in a $250 million fraud trial.

During a break in Trump's testimony on Monday, Habba spoke to reporters about the contentious hearing where her client had been cautioned for refusing to give direct answers.

Former President Donald Trump threw a tantrum in his $250 million civil fraud trial on Monday.

The eruption came as Trump complained to New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron about the trial. According to the former president, the case should be thrown out because his financial statements had included a disclaimer.

Appearing on CNN, former Manhattan prosecutor Jeremy Saland was stunned by Donald Trump's actions and words in the first hour of his testimony in the $250 million financial fraud trial.

As reports trickled in about the former becoming immediately combative when asked simple questions, which led Judge Arthur Engoron to implore the former president's lawyer to "control" him, Saland claimed New York Attorney General Letitia James, an observer in the courtroom, has to be pleased.

Speaking with hosts Kate Bolduan and John Berman, Saland said that "the bottom line here is that this is playing into the attorney general's hands."

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"This is what they want," he said of the AG's office. "They are not here to debate politics and what is going to happen outside of the courtroom in the election, but the four corners of the courtroom and whether they can prove their case."

"And going on tirades and talking about big bankers and going after the judge does nothing for his credibility, does nothing to dispute the evidence, does not bring new facts and evidence into play, so all of this really hurts Donald Trump," he continued.

"You don't have to be a former mental professional, but I do wonder if the former president understands the gravity of what he is doing," he suggested. "And I think, also, at the same time he is more afraid of this case because he thinks that the other matters, he is not going to ever see a day in jail and it doesn't really matter. This is his name and this is his future and he is going off of the rails from what we are hearing inside of the courtroom."

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