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Trump Lawyers Back to Old Antics on Bank Fraud Trial Day One<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/donald-j-trump">Donald Trump</a>’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-pissed-off-trump-shows-up-for-his-bank-fraud-trial?ref=author">bank fraud trial</a> in New York started with a friendly, normal question from the judge.</p> <p>“How are you?” Justice Arthur F. Engoron asked Trump defense lawyer <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/alina-habba-the-trump-lawyer-the-rest-of-trumps-legal-team-loathes">Alina Habba</a> when she walked up to the lectern Monday morning.</p> <p>“Well, we’ve been doing this for three years,” <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lawyer-alina-habba-settles-secretarys-btch-discrimination-case">Habba</a> responded pointedly. “I just want to remind everyone that Ms. James said she was going to come into the Attorney General's Office and ‘get Trump.’”</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lawyers-back-to-old-antics-on-bank-fraud-trial-day-one">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty

Donald Trump’s bank fraud trial in New York started with a friendly, normal question from the judge.

“How are you?” Justice Arthur F. Engoron asked Trump defense lawyer Alina Habba when she walked up to the lectern Monday morning.

“Well, we’ve been doing this for three years,” Habba responded pointedly. “I just want to remind everyone that Ms. James said she was going to come into the Attorney General’s Office and ‘get Trump.’”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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