185 BREAKING: A Fuming Judge Merchan Runs Interference for Bragg, Shouts at Trump Defense Witness Robert Costello: GET OUT OF THE COURTROOM, NOW! (www.thegatewaypundit.com) posted 26 days ago by LakotaPride 26 days ago by LakotaPride +185 / -0 BREAKING: A Fuming Judge Merchan Runs Interference for Bragg, Shouts at Trump Defense Witness Robert Costello: GET OUT OF THE CO... President Trump was back in a Manhattan court on Monday in Alvin Bragg’s Soviet-style ‘hush money’ lawfare trial. 77 comments share 77 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Merchan grows irate, begins EXCORIATING Robert Costello on the stand for making a few off-handed remarks and rolling his eyes during the testimony.
Merchan: Are you staring me down right now?
Costello: I’m not.
Merchan: GET OUT OF THE COURTROOM, NOW! GET OUT OF THE COURTROOM!
To be clear he was not telling Costello to get out of the courtroom. He was telling the reporters and other observers to leave.
First he asked the jury to leave and it escalated and he cleared the courtroom.
The press in the overflow room got to see some of this and then they shut off that video feed.
How can a judge have a private conversation with a witness?
My guess is it was a warning he was headed for contempt.
Like you know they make the jury leave when they are going to argue about things because it might prejudicial?
I think this was a level beyond that.
Like even in front of the reporters or other courthouse observers it would be an issue.
One reporter said Costello was red in the face when they came back