Report Claims Law Clerk Was Forced To Repeatedly Tell One Trump Lawyer To Stop Interrupting The Judge During NY AG Court Hearing As The Attorney Went On Unhinged Rants About Political Bias And Right-Wing Theories

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It seems we’re finally discovering why Donald Trump and his legal team are such a good fit, as they apparently behave exactly alike.

As we’ve reported this week, New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively put the higher half of the Trump family in their place when she went to court and successfully managed to force Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. to comply with the subpoenas she issued back in December, requiring that they sit for depositions, under oath, in her case against the ex-president and his company, the Trump Organization.

Earlier today, we reported that the behavior of the legal team representing the ex-president seemed to mirror that of their client’s when a report from the New York Times claimed that the judge in today’s court hearing was forced to call numerous time-outs because Donald Trump’s band of lawyers couldn’t keep their tempers and agitation under control.

But a new report from Business Insider has revealed a bit more depth to the legal team’s obnoxious behavior — including one Trump attorney who kept blatantly interrupting the judge with claims of political bias and various, unhinged Right-wing conspiracy theories, so much that a law clerk was forced, several times, to essentially tell her to shut up.

Lawyers for Donald Trump and his family were attempting to argue in court today that Attorney General James’ subpoenas should be quashed because, among a slew of other ridiculous things, they claimed the investigation was politically motivated because Letitia James was improperly conducting a civil and criminal probe.

One Trump attorney, Alina Habba, attempted to argue that AG James’ entire investigation is completely “invalid” and delegitimize by political bias because James had publicly expressed her criticism of Donald Trump.

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron attempted to respond to this argument that the entire case should be shut down, stating, “Let me just, let’s say this is obvious, but I’m not the attorney disciplinary committee. So some of these ethical questions, they’re not, they’re not in front of me. And I tend to say they’re not part of the case, but I haven’t totally —”

But the judge wasn’t even able to finish his thought before Habba rudely interrupted him, stating, “Your honor, how could you say that? They are very much a part of this case. You can’t speak to someone based on your hatred for them. You can’t —”

The law clerk, Allison Greenfield, then interjected to chastise the Trump attorney, stating matter-of-factly, “When the judge speaks, you need to stop speaking.”

According to the Insider report, this happened numerous times throughout the hearing, leaving Greenfield to once again reiterate, “When the judge speaks, you need to stop speaking.”

At one point, Habba even went so far as to interject and directly ask the federal judge if he intended to “go after Hillary Clinton for what she’s doing to my client.”

Engoron tersely cut her off and reminded her, “The Clintons are not before me.”

At this point, it’s pretty crystal clear that Donald Trump, his kids, and his own legal team are making a complete and utter mockery out of this whole thing. They’re doing the hard part for us.

Read the full report from Insider here.

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