The blockbuster remark came moments before closing arguments in Trump’s second trial in a case brought by E. Jean Carroll

A federal judge threatened Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba with jail time on Friday, after the former president’s lawyer kept contesting a ruling after it had been issued.

“You are on the verge of spending some time in the lockup,” senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan warned. “Sit down.”

The bombshell remark came moments before the start of closing arguments in Trump’s second trial in a case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.

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    I suspect he picks them based on the size of their willingness to represent a work for a client famous for not paying people, who has a substantial amount of his assets supervised by courts because he lost a fraud suit, whose attorneys have a habit of pleading guilty to felonies they committed on his behalf or being disbarred, who seems largely incapable of listening to legal advice, or keeping his mouth shut in the name of self-preservation