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Following an explosive day in court during the E. Jean Carroll trial in which Judge Lewis Kaplan threatened to have former President Donald Trump removed from the court for his aggressive behavior, former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen broke down on CNN how Trump's normal political strong-arm tactics are failing as he enters the legal world.

"It seems like Trump is testing the very structure of the justice system, going head to head with this judge, seeing how far he can go," said anchor Boris Sanchez.

"Unlike his successes in the political world, on the campaign trail when he does the testing, there are consequences in court," said Eisen. "The judge has made it very clear, if Donald Trump keeps up with the statement that Carroll's lawyers said, that it's a con job and a witch hunt, that can taint the jury. This is a very experienced federal judge, a very tough judge, and Donald Trump had better not cross those lines."...

Two judges in two separate Donald Trump trials in one day were forced to take extraordinary protective measures based on the actions of the defendant or his attorneys, and his followers.

While the protective measures are rare they are not unprecedented, but they underscore the threats the justice system is facing from the ex-president’s followers.

Friday afternoon in the $250 million civil fraud case against the ex-president, his two adult sons, and his company, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron expanded the gag order he had imposed on Donald Trump to include Trump’s attorneys, and threatened “serious sanctions” should they violate it. On Thursday two of Trump’s attorneys targeted the judge’s principal law clerk, actions that Trump had taken in earlier weeks, which initiated the imposition of the limited gag order....