'Crash and burn': Elie Honig reacts to Trump's courtroom strategy

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig breaks down the significance of Judge Arthur Engoron threatening to "draw every negative inference" as former President Donald Trump takes the witness stand in his New York civil fraud trial. #CNN #News

[SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers]

$250, 000, 000 is the minimum potential fine. The judge could find against Trump to the tune of 1 billion dollars or more.

[PathanShortVideos]

This should be televised. The world has a right to laugh.

[joshb.]

The judge is showing incredible patience, despite the antics and personal attacks.

[kevinodriscoll]

Anyone else would be held in contempt of court!

[lindazanihkowsky]

No Donnie it's not "unfair" it's called being held accountable.

[sophieamandaleitontoomey]

Wow. It's almost like yelling at the judge, throwing a tantrum, threatening the prosecutor and her team, antagonizing the judge's clerk, having no real defense except appealing and saying the trial is rigged and complaining to the media isn't a winning strategy in a court room.

Who would have thought it?

[TooSweetYou]

It’s so unfair the mean judge won’t let me get away with fraud..

[Arational]

When a psychopath is cornered, he lashes out.

[Lexuthr]

I mean he's not lying with his claim of it being "unfair". Anyone else would have been jailed for contempt many warnings ago. Nor will any trial ever be fair to a narcissist because they are all "innocent" in their own mind as their mental illness makes them believe they are always doing the right thing and because of that laws shouldn't apply to them.

[spw]

Remember: If this was any of US, we’d be held in contempt and spend a night in jail. Two tier justice system!

[adjwindu]

He is doing this because he knows pleading the 5th will not work here. He is playing to his base.

[joelashadali]

The double standard in our justice system is disgusting

[ericinla]

PISSING OFF THE JUDGE - The same judge that is going to decide how much Trump will be fined. Great Strategy

[summerrain]

The indulgence afforded this man from our judicial system is disgusting.

[hellpoint]

They are trying to provoke the judge so he reacts and then they claim bias on appeal.

[kimberlyford]

When you are not guilty, you try to give a testimony, but DEFIANCE is a sure sign of GUILT!

[mionapinyon]

Like a kid hollering “No fair!” when cornered and caught red-handed.

[Darbobski]

I hope Trump uses this same strategy in criminal cases.

[hollysmith]

He's not a fighter. He's a bully. There's a difference.

[Michigntiger]

It's interesting (read "frightening") that millions of people in this country can't tell the difference between a "fighter" and a 70-year-old child.