Merchan just cleared the courtroom.

[RandySF]

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Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
WOW. The judge is clearing the courtroom after dressing down Robert Costello for rolling his eyes and muttering about his rulings. The press is pushing back at this. Court officials are yelling.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Which officials are yelling?

[senseandsensibility]

2. How is the press pushing back and against whom?

Confusing.

[Wednesdays]

3. Press is back in the courtroom.

The judge just cleared the courtroom long enough to read the riot act to Costello.

[Torchlight]

4. Another day of an unprepared, incompetent defense could see

any remaining sympathetic jurors bail on him.

[Traurigkeit]

12. "sympathetic jurors" Easier to find a chicken with incisors

[Tetrachloride]

5. who is Robert Costello

[InstantGratification]

7. A witness currently testifying in this trial

I don't believe he was ever officially a lawyer for Trump or Cohen, but he had close ties to Trump's legal team and gave informal legal advice to Cohen around the time Cohen was being investigated for the crimes for which he was eventually convicted. Around 2018, iir

[LiberalFighter]

8. He is an attorney. He looks like a pimp.

[Tetrachloride]

10. now im interested. :))

[Jerry2144]

6. I did something like that once. Cleared a classroom

I shouldn’t have had Taco Bell for lunch

[AllaN01Bear]

9. i can just imagine this in my head and its the judges right to do so.

[peppertree]

11. Scolded and spanked like the overgrown child he is

Just like the defendunce.