Judge to Trump attorney: "Can you control your client?"
From CNN's Lauren del Valle, Stephen Collinson, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb in New York
The sniping between Judge Arthur Engoron and Donald Trump has been a feature of the first 30 or so minutes of testimony, with the judge getting impatient at various tangents from the former president.
"Mr. Kise, can you control your client?" Engoron said to Trump attorney Chris Kise.
"This is not a political rally. This is a courtroom," he added.
Later, the judge said: "In addition to the answers being non responsive, they’re repetitive. We don’t have time to waste. We have one day with this witness," Engoron says.
Trump’s legal team is deliberately trying to inject the political implications of a trial that the former president claims is an example of persecution into the apolitical context of the courtroom.
Kise referred to Monday's “New York Times” that carries polls showing that the Republican front-runner is leading general election matchups in multiple swing states that will decide the 2024. In another intervention, he argued that Trump was the former and likely “soon to be” next chief executive of the United States.
But the approach taken by Kise and Trump’s extended answers are beginning to grate with the judge and have sparked heated sparring between the rival sets of lawyers.
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