Less than an hour into the direct testimony of former President Donald Trump in the New York attorney general’s business fraud case, a Manhattan judge twice ordered defense counsel to gain control of their client, lest he draw adverse inference.

“Mr. Kise, can you control your witness,” state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron told lead defense counsel Christopher Kise. “I’m considering drawing a negative inference.”

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