'Sit down!' Judge shouts at Alina Habba as she's unable to control Trump on the stand

'Sit down!' Judge shouts at Alina Habba as she's unable to control Trump on the stand
Trump attorney Alina Habba (Screen cap via Fox News)

Trump attorney Alina Habba was scolded by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron on Monday after she could not control Donald Trump on the stand.

Throughout his Monday testimony, Trump avoided answering questions. Instead, he attacked the judge and prosecutors.

"I beseech you to control him. If you can't, I will. I will excuse him and draw every negative inference," Engoron said.

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"The burden is on the AG to ask better questions," Habba said.

"We are not here to hear what he has to say. We are here to listen to him answer questions." Engoron said.

Moments later, Habba became more aggressive.

"Yes, you are here to listen to what he has to say," she told the judge.

"Sit down!" Engoron shouted, reportedly losing his temper.

"This is a very unfair trial," Trump quipped into the microphone.

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President Donald Trump was ridiculed by critics on Sunday after he claimed victory at one of his golf tournaments.

Trump, 80, bragged on Truth Social that he won the Bedminster Club Championship with a final-round score of 70, or two under par. The tournament was hosted at the golf club he owns in New Jersey, the same place where he also claimed to have won the Men's Senior Club Championship in 2025.

Trump shared a video of his "winning shot" on Truth Social.

"Thank you very much to all of those who participated," Trump wrote in a post accompanying the video. "I won with a score of 70, and am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, because I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it, and they don’t!"

The president's critics roasted him on social media.

"A bottomless pit of need," Norm Wilner, a writer and podcaster, posted on Bluesky.

"No previous president in history has ever spoken like this," Mehdi Hasan, founder of Zeteo News, posted on X. "If someone in your social circle spoke like this, you would distance yourself from them. Over 70 million people voted for this guy. I will never ever get over that."

"Every time I think he can’t get more pathetic, he manages to prove me wrong," Jennifer Erin Valent, an award-winning author, posted on X.

"'I’m going to be working for you,' he told a campaign rally crowd in August 2016. 'I’m not going to have time to play golf,'” Brian McKeon, a former national security official for the Obama and Biden administrations, posted on X.

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A Republican Senator called out President Donald Trump for what one independent journalist dubbed "blatant reflecting pool lies."

Sen. James Kennedy (R-LA) appeared on "Meet the Press" Sunday to discuss U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's sudden decision to drop vandalism charges in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case she promised would be "open and shut."

"The whole thing is a multiple vehicle pile-up," said Kennedy. "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know whether he really believes that or if it's part of his political messaging."

That pile-up involves the Justice Department, the White House and the Department of the Interior, all of whom spent the past two days hurling accusations and insults at one another.

Pirro kicked off the dispute by blaming the Interior Department for misleading her prosecutors about when the pool lining began to peel.

In her 20-page court filing Friday, she said there was no evidence that a 67-year-old Olympian canoeist had vandalized the pool — but there was evidence the damage was caused by "flawed installation by the contractor."

Trump then took to Truth Social to condemn Pirro, asserting he didn't know "what she was thinking" and that vandalism was to blame.

"I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro," Trump raged on X. "There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!"

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum backed Trump up and defended his department, writing a scathing rebuke on X.

"Vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool," Burgum wrote. "We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments."

Kennedy on Sunday expressed regret that Trump had opened his (figurative) mouth at all.

"He exists loudly, and he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought," Kennedy said.

The Louisiana Senator then applauded Pirro for withdrawing her case.

"You can't lie to a federal judge," he said. "She was smart to pull it back."

Jeanine Pirro, the judge and television star-turned U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, could soon be out of a job, journalist Molly Jong-Fast said Sunday.

“Trump operates on this sort of 'Earth 2' scenario where things are as he says they are," Jong-Fast said during an appearance on MS NOW. "We saw this with Kristi Noem where you can only shift reality so much."

A loyal ally to Trump, Pirro invoked the president’s anger this weekend after her office dropped charges against a man accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn.

Pirro was forced to admit in a court filing that the damage to the pool was instead caused by a “flawed installation.”

For Jong-Fast, crossing Trump – especially as a woman in his administration – was an easy indicator of an early termination.

“She got this job because Donald Trump liked her on television, so it's not as if she's eminently qualified,” Jong-Fast said. “Part of being in this administration – especially for women – is appearing in a way that pleases Donald Trump, whatever that means.

"You could certainly see her losing her job over this.”

Stuart Stevens, former campaign strategist for Republican Mitt Romney during his failed 2012 presidential bid, then jumped in to express his exhaustion over Trump’s Reflecting Pool fixation.

“We're talking about the Reflecting Pool?” Stevens said.

“We're at war, under 30 percent of the people in the country think the economy is going in the right direction, and this is what it's like? I just say to my former Republicans, good luck this November, baby, because nobody cares about this but Donald Trump.”

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