Angry Trump blasts judge after Cohen testimony

Former President Trump on Monday laced into the New York judge handling his hush money trial after his former attorney, Michael Cohen, spent hours on the witness stand.

Trump was asked as he exited the courtroom why a handful of elected officials had joined him at the courthouse, with Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and the attorney general of Iowa among them.

“They think it’s a terrible thing that is happening to democracy in this country,” Trump responded. “We have a lot of them, they want to come. I say, just stay back and pass lots of laws to stop things like this.”

Trump proceeded to read from a document for roughly five minutes that contained commentary from Republican lawmakers, legal pundits and commentators on cable television who expressed skepticism about the case or otherwise defended the former president.