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Donald Trump appears with his lawyer Todd Blanche by video conferencing before Justice Juan Merchan during a prior hearing ahead of his hush-money trial.
  • Trump's hush money trial is in its second week in Manhattan.
  • Attorney Todd Blanche struggled Tuesday to defend Trump's online attacks on witnesses and the jury.
  • "You're losing all credibility," the judge railed when Blanche insisted Trump was "careful" online.

A judge verbally excoriated a defense attorney for Donald Trump during the Manhattan hush-money trial on Tuesday, questioning the lawyer's ethics and calling his arguments unsupported and "irrelevant."