A long-simmering spat between Donald Trump’s lawyers and the judge overseeing Trump’s ongoing civil fraud trial flared up again Friday when they engaged in nearly 30 minutes of debate about the judge’s principal law clerk, who has been a target of the former president since the start of the trial.
Trump has repeatedly complained about the clerk, Allison Greenfield, alleging without evidence that she is biased against him.
Early on in the trial, a message depicting her that he posted on social media earned him a gag order barring him from speaking about the judge’s staff, and last week a comment by the former president about Greenfield resulted in the second of two fines for violating the gag order.