Maggie Haberman Says Trump Court Antics ‘Didn’t Quite Work Out’ After Fraud Trial Fireworks — Michael Cohen ‘Rattles Trump’

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman said former President Donald Trump’s appearance in court to “glower” at former Trump fixer-turned-star fraud trial witness Michael Cohen. “didn’t quite work out” like Trump wanted it to.

There were fireworks Wednesday at the New York fraud trial that culminated with Trump stunning his Secret Service detail by abruptly storming out of court after repeated legal smackdowns by Judge Arthur Engoron that included a $10,000 fine for violating his gag order again.

On Wednesday’s edition of The Lead, anchor Jake Tapper asked Haberman for her insights into Trump’s rage, and Haberman said Cohen “gets under Trump’s skin”:

TAPPER: Maggie, let’s start with what we’re seeing in New York today. Do you think a second fine for violating a gag order $10,000 is going to convince Trump not to say whatever he wants to say whenever he wants to say it?

MAGGIE HABERMAN: As we’ve seen, Jake, Trump is going to test the bounds of whatever limits are put on him over and over. And we saw that he was fined in this case previously, just not under the circumstances, it wasn’t in the form of a gag order, but earlier in the AGs case against him. It did ultimately have an impact but it took several days. I think this might have an impact. Right now, I don’t know how long lived it will be, $10,000 to Trump. He doesn’t like parting with money, but it’s not a lot of money.

TAPPER: You noted that Michael Cohen his — Trump’s former fixer and lawyer has been looking for a showdown with Trump for a few years. How much of Trump’s anger today and Trump’s comments on social media are driven by seeing his former fixer on the stand publicly betraying him?

HABERMAN: It’s a big piece, this personal nature of this few, Jake, in terms of their behavior, seeing from Trump, he wanted to be at this trial. He doesn’t have to be there. He’s not a criminal defendant. And he didn’t have to go but he has wanted to go when Michael Cohen was testifying, plan to do it last week when Cohen was supposed to be there is there now. He thinks that things go better when he shows up the trials.

Now as we’ve seen he ended up getting fined by the judge. So that didn’t quite work out. But he accomplished what he wanted to do, which was to glower up Michael Cohen for a while. I do think that Cohen gets under Trump’s skin. I do think that Cohen rattles Trump in a very specific way. And I think you’re seeing Trump tried to do it back.

Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.