Judge Blasts Trump For 'Audibly Cursing' While Stormy Daniels Was Testifying

Judge Juan Merchan blasted Donald Trump on Tuesday after he was heard "audibly cursing" while Stormy Daniels was delivering her testimony. Daniels gave a stunning description of what transpired during their affair, right down to the last creepy detail, and that set Trump off severely. But at this point it feels like the judge is going out of his way to NOT punish Trump for his transgressions, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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Stormy Daniels gave a quite damning testimony against Donald Trump on Tuesday, and it didn't make Donald Trump too happy at all. And he actually got in trouble with the judge for how unhappy he became. So here's what happened. Stormy Daniels recalled the story of how there was a magazine in Trump's apartment when she was there, and Trump said, the only thing that's good for is, you know, given a spanking. And she then told the story of how they rolled the magazine up and she spanked him with it on his butt, she said. And at that point, Donald Trump became visibly annoyed and was shaking his head and, no, no, no, no, no. But then there was another point during her testimony that was so bad that the judge had to call a sidebar to pull Donald Trump's lawyers up there to let them know that if he does this crap again, he's gonna go to jail. I'll believe that when I see it. But anyway, here's what the judge told Trump's lawyers. I understand that your client is upset at this point, but he is cursing audibly and he's shaking his head visually. And that's contemptuous. It has the potential to intimidate the witness, and the jury can see that.

So in addition to shaking his head about being spanked with a magazine, Donald Trump was also cursing audibly out loud while she was testifying. And yes, that would be viewed as a, as a violation, not necessarily of the gag order, but a violation of the court rules that is contemptuous as the judge said. So here's the thing, the judge also pointed something else out there, and he did go on to say, you know, if, if, if he's gonna do this, I'm gonna have to throw him a jail. Like that is the next step. That's what I've promised for a second time, and I swear to God this time I'll do it, whatever. But the thing the judge pointed out that is most damning for Donald Trump was they can see that, you know, the jury, those 12 people over here that are gonna decide your fate, they see your reaction to this.

They see you becoming unhinged, they hear you becoming unhinged and, uh, just a little FYI. It doesn't sit well with these folks. So honestly, the judge didn't have to give Trump's lawyers that warning, and I kind of wish he hadn't. But it was also his way of letting them know that, listen, you've gotta control your client because he's gonna ruin your case for you. Now, as I mentioned, there were all, some, some, uh, uh, other disgusting things that Stormy Daniels talked about during her testimony, but none of them as creepy and disgusting as the fact that she said that Donald Trump told her the woman he was sleeping with, that she reminded him of his daughter. Yeah, that guy sitting at the top of the Republican party is so in love with his own daughter that apparently he actively sought

Out a woman because she reminded him of his daughter. Can you imagine saying that to a person that you were either about to sleep with or had just slept with, like, Hey, you remind me of my kid. At that point, I don't think there's enough buckets available on earth to contain all of my vomit, but according to Stormy Daniels, that is what the Republican front runner told her, and that's what millions of Republicans wanna put back in the White House.