Brandon Livesay
Reporting from New York City

Image source, Reuters

It was a drama-filled ending to court today when former US President Donald Trump was fined $10,000 for violating a gag order.

The judge unexpectedly ordered Trump to take the stand (seen in the court sketch from Jane Rosenberg above).

Trump denied his "partisan" comments were about a court clerk, but the judge said the former president was not a credible witness.

Not long after that, Trump walked out of court flanked by Secret Service.

When Trump left court, he told media: "The witness just admitted that we won the trial and the judge should end this trial immediately. Thank you".

Speaking after court adjourned, Michael Cohen told reporters: "You may have seen Trump storm out, he stormed out because they wanted to make a motion to dismiss the case, to which the judge said absolutely not".

It appears Cohen's role in this trial is now over, he was dismissed as a witness.

For a full wrap of today's events, you can read this article.

Our team today was Thomas Mackintosh and myself, with Chloe Kim and Kayla Epstein reporting from court in Manhattan.

Thanks for joining us.

It has been a busy day in New York, let's recap the key events.

• Donald Trump was fined $10,000 (£8,200) for violating a gag order after he seemingly called a court clerk "partisan"
• Judge Arthur Engoron told Trump: “Don’t do it again or it will be worse”
• Trump left the courtroom not long after, with Secret Service in tow
• Cohen said Trump did not directly order him to inflate asset values, but said it was implied

• Trump's attorney Alina Habba grilled Cohen about money he made from Trump

• They spent time trying to discredit Cohen as a witness - who admitted in court he lied to a judge in a previous case

Judge Engoron adjourns the court and says it will continue tomorrow at 10:00 local time (15:00 BST).

Trump did not reappear.

Chloe Kim
Reporting from court

After a dramatic ending to the cross examination, the state is now back and questioning Cohen again.

The judge allowed him to elaborate on a previous answer, when Cohen said that Trump did not direct him to inflate the numbers.

Cohen says: ”Trump speaks like mob boss”.

He does not explicitly say what he wants, but says CFO Allen Weisselberg and himself "understood what he wanted".

Cohen says Trump wanted to rise in the Forbes 100 rich list and they were directed to meet with the Forbes writer and explain the value of the assets, which were already inflated.

Chloe Kim
Reporting from court

Image source, Reuters

Defence attorney Cliff Roberts has just asked Judge Engoron for an immediate verdict, saying the attorney general's "star witness" has admitted lying.

After a complicated back and forth, Cohen told the court he could not recall if Trump had directed him to inflate the values of his assets.

Habba starts smiling at Roberts' questioning.

To the request for an immediate verdict, Judge Engoron says: "Denied".

Trump gets up and leaves, Secret Service are close behind.

It is not clear if he is returning.

Chloe Kim
Reporting from court

Some more details now about the $10,000 fine.

The judge called Donald Trump to the witness stand and asked who Trump was talking about.

Trump said it was about Judge Engoron and Michael Cohen.

But Judge Engoron did not believe him. He asked Trump, doesn't he usually refer to Cohen by his name?

And then the judge says he does not find Trump to be a credible witness.

He tells Trump: "don't do it again or it will be worse".

Trump's lawyers tried to excuse their client, but without success.

Judge Engoron has fined Donald Trump $10,000 (£8,200) for violating gag orders.

The fine is because of comments Trump made earlier today when he appeared to insult the court clerk.

Trump told media: Engoron was a “very partisan judge with a person who is very partisan sitting alongside him, perhaps even more partisan than he is”.

Brandon Livesay
Reporting from New York City

Once again we have heard from former President Donald Trump as he makes his way back to court after the lunch break.

He doesn't speak about the fraud trial, but does talk about the new House Speaker, Mike Johnson.

Johnson was just voted in moments ago after a tumultuous couple of weeks for the House Republicans. You can check out our live coverage of the speaker vote here.

Trump congratulates Johnson and says he will be "a great speaker of the House and we were very happy to help”.

“At this time yesterday nobody was thinking of Mike, and then we put out the word and now he’s the Speaker of the House.”

Last Friday, a New York judge fined Donald Trump $5,000 (£4,100) for violating a gag order in his civil fraud trial.

Judge Arthur Engoron first issued the gag order against Trump after he made a post on his social media site Truth Social where he disparaged the judge's clerk.

Trump violated the gag order when he made another comment about the clerk. The post was deleted on social media, but remained on his website.

Judge Engoron threatened Trump with more fines and potential jail time if he violates the gag order again.

Prior to the order, Trump had repeatedly made personal attacks on the judge and called him "deranged" and a "rogue adjudicator".

Brandon Livesay
Reporting from New York City

Image source, Reuters

Donald Trump and his team stayed in the courtroom for about 15-20 minutes after recess was called.

He just emerged and spoke with waiting reporters, but said he “can’t tell you” what they were doing for so long inside the room.

When asked if he violated a gag order with his comments earlier today, Trump said he did not.

He says he wasn’t speaking about the clerk when he told media that the person “sitting alongside” the judge was “perhaps even more partisan than he is”.

Multiple reporters asked Trump who he was talking about, to which he replied “any other questions?”

He also said “the judge is a democrat, but I do respect the judge”.

Judge Engoron says it's time for lunch.

Michael Cohen slid past media without making a comment.

We haven't seen Trump emerge from the courtroom yet.

Court will resume at 14:15 ET (19:15 BST).

Chloe Kim
Reporting from court

Habba is going through past interviews Cohen gave, where he had glowing praise for his then boss.

She mentions articles from multiple US news outlets.

In an ABC article, she reads that Cohen said: "I’ve been admiring Trump since I was in high school”.

Cohen admits he did admire Trump while in college.

She also asked if Cohen recalls telling Vanity Fair that he is "the guy who would take a bullet for the president".

He says yes, he remembers saying that.

Image source, Reuters

Courtroom artist Jane Rosenberg has sketched this scene from inside proceedings today.

It shows Donald Trump watching his lawyer Alina Habba during a cross examination of Michael Cohen. Judge Arthur Engoron is also pictured.

Two of Michael Cohen's books are also shown, Disloyal and Revenge.

Chloe Kim
Reporting from court

Habba is continuing her questioning of Cohen, focusing on how he might make money from his links to Trump.

She says Cohen previously worked in law and now he works in "entertainment and media", referencing his books, his podcast, YouTube content and merchandise.

She's asked him if he makes money off of Trump now, saying "the more outrageous your stories are about President Trump, the more money you make”.

Cohen says "no".

Cohen says he talks about Trump because he is "the front runner of Republican party".

Chloe Kim
Reporting from court

During that court break, Donald Trump spoke with reporters.

He said: "this judge is a very partisan judge with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is".

Judge Engoron has interpreted that as an attack on his law clerk, who Trump has previously made "disparaging" remarks about.

The judge says he feels very protective of his staff and adds: "I don’t want anyone to get killed".

Last week, Trump violated a gag order over comments about the clerk, and was fined $5,000.

The judge said he previously accepted the explanation that the violation was "inadvertent".

Kise, Trump’s lawyer, says his client was talking about Michael Cohen - not the law clerk. Kise says Trump is tired of listening to what he’s hearing from Cohen, saying "it’s very partisan".

No fine has been issued.

Chloe Kim
Reporting from court

We're back from a very brief recess. Habba's grilling of Cohen will continue shortly.

There was a hold up in the security line to return to the courtroom.

A member of the press apparently dropped their camera on another reporter's head.

The reporter had an ice pack on her head and said she had been bleeding.

Thomas Mackintosh
Live reporter

Image source, EPA

Seated next to the former president in this photograph is Alina Habba.

She is a key member of his legal team and has been closely associated with Donald Trump for some time.

Habba is leading the cross-examination of Michael Cohen today.

Born in New Jersey, the 39-year-old says she has served as lead counsel for "numerous newsworthy cases", according to her website.

These include a federal class action suit against a New Jersey nursing home accused of various negligent acts and consumer fraud violations - including storing 17 bodies in a storage room in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Earlier this month when Trump defended his financial operations in New York, sparks flew in her opening remarks when Habba directed an attack at New York attorney general Letitia James.

She accused James of being politically motivated.

Chloe Kim
Reporting from court

During some more bickering between the legal teams, Trump's lawyer, Christopher Kise, says it's unfortunate there is no jury.

And Judge Engoron replies: "then maybe you don't know New York juries".

This is a bench trial, which does not involve a jury.

Trump's team did not request a trial on paperwork, but even if they had - a jury would not have been guaranteed.

Trump has frequently complained about having no jury in this trial.

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from court

We've only been in court for an hour and everyone's looking a little irritated after several rounds of bickering among Trump's defence team, the judge, and prosecutor Faherty.

Cohen, wearing a black blazer and typical hangdog expression, has showed some annoyance as he watches these legal skirmishes play out from the sidelines.

We're sitting behind and to the right of Trump himself.

From what we can see, he has assumed his usual slouched posture in the chair, and is maintaining a neutral expression. He mostly looks straight ahead, not at his lawyer-turned-nemesis.

He's letting his lawyers do all the fighting for him.

Eric Trump, seated behind his father in the audience, has a relatively blank expression.

Earlier, we heard from Donald Trump before he entered the Manhattan courtroom.

Trump did briefly comment on the trial, but he also had some things to say about the drama of the ongoing Speaker race.

Mike Johnson was named as the House Republicans' choice for Speaker late last night.

Why late last night? Because Tom Emmer was named as the nominee yesterday and dropped out hours later - after Trump criticised him during a courtroom break.

The former president told reporters today: "I think Mike Johnson is doing very well, he is a tremendous congressman, respected by everybody.

"I haven't had one negative comment about him," Trump added.

• You can read the latest on the Speaker race here