As the cross-examination wore on Wednesday with painstaking queries about specific aspects of individual financial statements, Judge Arthur Engoron pounded his fist and said the defense was ignoring his instructions to streamline the questioning.
“This is ridiculous,” said the judge, who’s hearing the case without a jury because state law doesn’t allow for one in this type of lawsuit.
Trump’s lawyers complained that the judge was compromising their ability to defend the former president.
“I’ve never had to negotiate how to ask questions as a lawyer,” defense attorney Christopher Kise said.
