Article is spot on: It doesn’t matter. Let him run his mouth. This is one of the benefits of a bench trial as distinguished from a trial to a jury. The judge can be trusted to make (legally) correct inferences from testimony in a way that a jury could not, so the risk of letting a blowhard ramble is minimal by comparison, whereas the risk of shutting said blowhard down is a finding of error by an appeals court. The only people he’s talking to are the minuscule cross-section of the public that is both paying attention and could be swayed by anything Jr says–i.e., no one.
Yeah, it’s not televised, Don Jr always sounds like the most confident idiot since, well, his own father, and this will not impact the decision of the judge in any way.
Jr is just wasting everyone’s time, though, so no wonder the AG left. Who needs to sit though listening to that idiot blather on when it doesn’t matter in the slightest?