Trump claims judge wants to rush case as day four ends with more drama

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Judge Merchan said the idea of forcing prosecutors to redact all the filings was 'absurd'.Arguments closed out a dramatic day where Trump watched prospective jurors break down in tears and claim they were too stressed to serve as the court seated a full jury for opening statements on MondayAs he walked out of the courtroom Trump accused the judge of wanting the case to go 'as fast as possible'He told Bove: 'Don't interrupt me'.Bove protested: 'I'm not interrupting you'.Judge Merchan said: 'Oh you are, have a seat'.Judge Merchan signed the order sealing the records.
41% : They also sought to be able to cross-examine Trump on being ordered in 2019 to pay $2 million for misuse of funds for The Trump Foundation, his charitable organization.
35% : As he walked out of the courtroom Trump accused the judge of wanting the case to go 'as fast as possible'.
32% : Bove said that the verdict was on appeal and that Trump 'would have to respond' which would take the trial down a 'rabbit hole'.
32% : Trump's lawyers also objected to the prospect of Trump being cross examined over the two defamation verdicts in civil cases brought against him by the journalist E. Jean CarrollThe judge said in a scathing ruling: 'We are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose.
31% : Prosecutors also offered to reveal the name of their first witness to the defense off Sunday if they didn't tell Trump and stop the identity being 'tweeted'.
31% : He said that it was difficult to find something more probative than Judge Engoron saying, after calling Trump into the witness box and asking him to testify about breaching his order, that the 'defendant's testimony rings hollow and untrue'.Trump's lawyers also objected to the prospect of Trump being cross examined over the two defamation verdicts in civil cases brought against him by the journalist E. Jean Carroll.
30% : The argument closed out a dramatic day where Trump watched prospective jurors break down in tears and claim they were too stressed to serve as the court seated a full jury for opening statements on Monday.
27% : She won an $83.3 million judgment against Trump earlier this year, after already winning $5m when a jury found him liable for sexually assaulting her in the mid 1990s.
25% : Prosecutors were also seeking to question Trump about his real estate empire being found guilty of tax fraud and falsifying business records in 2022.
23% : 'Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries.
22% : The next issue were contempt findings from Judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over the fraud trial, that Trump breached his gag order barring him from talking about witnesses or his staff.
9% : The first issue in the Sandoval hearing was the prosecution request to cross examine Trump about the $364 million finding against Trump by a New York judge in his fraud trial earlier this year.
2% : Trump called the case a 'giant witch hunt' and also slammed New York General Letitia James over the fraud case where he was fined $355millionThe former president's lawyers hit back at suggestions from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office that the past cases were relevant because they are 'immoral, vicious, illegal or bad acts'Prosecutors were also seeking to question Trump about his real estate empire being found guilty of tax fraud and falsifying business records in 2022Bove called the case 'unacceptable as a basis for impeachment' and said that it 'pushes the salacious on another level'Colangelo said that the fact Trump was found liable for defamation with actual malice was 'critical evidence in assessing the defendant's credibility'The court then turned to the lawsuit filed by Trump against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others for racketeering in a conspiracy against him.

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