Hello, you're watching the beat with Ari Melburn. We have something special

cooking today. We're covering this conclusion of Donald Trump's fraud trial

as we have throughout the day. There he was in court again the second time he's been

in a courtroom this week

instead of campaigning in Iowa. It's a telling sign of how personal this all is to

Trump as you can see him there. He basically has opted out of the traditional campaign activities he was not required to attend but that's what it looked like in the courtroom today

And we also heard from the attorney general who has been on something of a streak here. She already won the fraud

finding portion of this. Now they're fighting over what potential penalties

there may be. The judge also gave Donald Trump a chance to speak today, not

full-closing arguments, but required that he

have to comment only on facts in law if he did so.

Trump didn't stick to that.

He went into a kind of a rant, speaking for about five minutes, arguing that this was all wrong and a fraud and he's the one being persecuted.

Then Trump actually tried to attack the judge in the courtroom,

just making a reference to his own agenda,

and that was about enough.

The judge then shut him down

and even asked Trump's attorney to please control your client. Now most lawyers would say that if you are dealing with a judge who's going to decide

whether your company pays five, ten, a hundred, or three hundred million, you wouldn't

really want to attack him on the last day as he goes

in to make those ruminations doesn't seem strategic. All of this is a bench

trial. There's no jury and the judge as mentioned ruled on the fraud again

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