‘Do Not Refer to My Staff Again’: Judge Warns Trump’s Lawyer During Tense Exchange

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Judge Arthur Engoron accused former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Chris Kise of misogyny and warned him not to refer to court clerk again during a tense exchange on Thursday.

During Trump’s New York civil fraud trial on Thursday, which saw Eric Trump testify in court, Engoron snapped at Kise for repeatedly referring to Engoron’s principal law clerk Allison Greenfield as a “female principal law clerk,” according to the New York Post.

“I sometimes think there might be a bit of misogyny when you keep referring to my ‘female principal law clerk,'” said Engoron during the exchange, which reportedly prompted Kise to “adamantly” deny he was a misogynist and bring up the fact that “he was happily married and a father of a teenage girl,” the Post reported.

Engoron then reportedly warned Kise, “All joking aside, do not refer to my staff again… The person sitting along side me is a civil servant, doing what I ask her to do.”

Engoron also reportedly threatened to expand Trump’s gag order to Kise and other Trump lawyers if they continued to refer to court staffers.

Last month, Engoron fined Trump $10,000 for violating his gag order, which prohibits the former president from attacking court staffers, after Trump called Engoron “a very partisan judge, with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”

Just one week prior, Trump had been fined an additional $5,000 for failing to take down a Truth Social post which attacked Engoron’s law clerk.