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- Donald Trump took the stand Monday in his civil fraud trial in New York.
- Asked to answer 'yes' or 'no,' Trump – never a man of few words – colored way outside the lines.
- "Control your client," the judge told Trump's lawyer just a half-hour in.
The judge in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial repeatedly interrupted the former president's historic — and at times rambling — testimony on Monday.
During heated exchanges that included the former president railing about the Democratic plot against him, the judge begged Trump's lawyers to control him.
"I beseech you to control him if you can. If you can't, I will," the judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, said just 40 minutes into Trump's testimony.