Trump attorney Christopher Kise told a lawyer for the New York attorney general's office that they didn't earn his respect.
One of the attorneys representing Donald Trump in his civil fraud trial got into a heated exchange on Wednesday with one of the lawyers from Attorney General Letitia James' legal team.Attorneys Christopher Kise and Alina Habba continued the day's proceedings by cross-examining former longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who first took the stand on Tuesday and was in the same room as the former president for the first time in five years.
He also mentioned that he had been practicing law for 30 years without sanctions until he encountered attempts by the attorney general.'I've argued four cases before the Supreme Court—they want me to be respectful to them?' Kise said.James' office wanted to sanction Trump's legal team for continuing to raise 'previously-rejected arguments' in their motions, according to court filings.
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