At Trump’s civil fraud trial, a woman was detained after she attempted to approach him

At Trump's civil fraud trial, a woman was detained after she attempted to approach him

Following her attempt to approach former president Donald Trump at his civil fraud trial in New York on Wednesday, a woman was taken into prison.

She attempted to approach Trump, who was seated at the defense table across from her, during witness evidence in the $250 million civil case brought by the New York attorney general against Trump. “I want to speak to Mr. Trump,” she said to a court official. She informed the court official that her presence was for his support.

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She obeyed the officer’s instructions to take a seat again among the crowd. A few minutes later, she was contacted by another court official who ordered her to leave. At first, she protested, but eventually she obliged. She fled, trailed by a number of court personnel.

The incident happened behind Trump, but he didn’t appear to notice it.

The woman told the officers outside the courtroom that they were “scaring” her. “I’m allowed to be here. I was born and raised here. Prior to complaining that the officers were “attacking me,” she stated that she was only there to support Donald Trump.

She was subsequently arrested and accused of second-degree contempt of court for interfering with a court case.

The woman is a court employee, and she has been placed on administrative leave pending inquiry, a representative for the state Office of Court Administration told NBC New York in a statement.

As he was leaving court, Trump was questioned about the event and responded, “We don’t know anything about it. You know who needs to be put in jail? You know who needs to be put in jail? For what she’s doing, the attorney general needs to be taken into custody.

After the trial’s hearings on Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James told reporters that the courtroom is “where we have produced evidence and the evidence is obvious. That is he lied about his financial interests in order to benefit himself and his family. Nothing will alter that, either. not those directed against me or anyone else.

Trump attended the trial for the second day in a straight this week. He and his company are accused of greatly inflating the worth of their assets in financial statements provided to banks and insurance companies in order to obtain loans and policies at lower rates than they were legally entitled to.

Trump has denied doing anything illegal.

Tuesday’s testimony about the accounting procedures used by the Trump Organization was pretty dry. On Wednesday, the trial became occasionally heated as Trump’s counsel accused a witness of lying and the attorney general’s office accused the Trump team of “witness intimidation.”

The intense exchanges occurred when Doug Larson, a former executive at the commercial real estate company Cushman & Wakefield, was being cross-examined by the Trump team.

Kevin Wallace from the AG’s office once objected that Trump was speaking too loudly. Wallace observed, “I believe there are exhortations being made,” and added, “I would ask the defendant to stop delivering comments during the witness testimony.”

Judge Arthur Engoron remarked that he “will ask everyone to be silent during the witness testimony.”

In response to questions from the AG’s office on Tuesday, Larson claimed that Trump Organization representatives had included bank-commissioned valuations of Trump properties in their financial statements, but had done so while using a lower cap rate to assert that the buildings were worth more than Cushman had calculated.

Also during his testimony, he refuted claims made in Trump documents that Larson had been consulted regarding the valuations for specific years. His utilization of his work without his knowledge was deemed “inappropriate” and its stats were deemed “inaccurate.” He claimed to have “never” worked for the Trump Organization.

On Wednesday, Larson was questioned by Trump’s attorneys regarding emails indicating that he had discussed some of the appraisals with Jeff McConney, a former senior vice president at Trump’s business.

“You lied yesterday, didn’t you?” The attorney general’s office objected after Trump attorney Lazaro Fields raised the question.

Christopher Kise, a different Trump attorney, claimed Larson “perjured himself.”

Kise expressed concern that Larson would face legal trouble and recommended the AG’s office to share this concern. He declared, “I’m certainly worried about his rights, whether they’re worried about them or not.

The emails in question were for different years than the ones Larson was speaking about on Tuesday, according to an attorney with the AG’s office, who also said that Trump’s attorneys were putting on “a performance.”

The attorney for the AG, Colleen Flaherty, declared, “This is witness intimidation, your honor.”

Trump talked to reporters during a break and seemed pleased with the interaction.

He compared it to Perry Mason, a 1950s TV drama about a criminal defense attorney, saying, “This was like Perry Mason.”

“The administration simply and unashamedly lied. They withheld some of the information they possessed, he claimed.

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