Judges have tried gag orders and fines, but so far the former president has shown little interest in restraining himself<\/p>\n
Sign up for Trump on Trial: a free newsletter on all the latest court developments<\/a><\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s defamation trial against E<\/strong> Jean Carroll<\/strong> resumes in New York today after a juror\u2019s illness delayed proceedings. But the biggest question isn\u2019t whether Trump will be found liable (he already was) or even how much he\u2019ll have to pay her (it could be a lot). It\u2019s how he\u2019ll behave \u2013 and what, if anything, the judge can do to rein him in.<\/p>\n The last time Trump was in court, he grumbled so loudly from his seat that the judge, Lewis Kaplan<\/strong>, warned him he could be kicked out of court<\/a>. \u201cMr Trump has the right to be present here. That right can be forfeited, and it can be forfeited if he is disruptive,\u201d he said. \u201cMr Trump, I hope I don\u2019t have to consider excluding you from the trial.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Judges have tried gag orders and fines, but so far the former president has shown little interest in restraining himself Sign up for Trump on Trial: a free newsletter on all the latest court developments Donald Trump\u2019s defamation trial against E Jean Carroll resumes in New York today after a juror\u2019s illness delayed proceedings. But … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}