Second day of testimony wraps in Trump hush money trial

Moving onto the post about the jury and Jesse Watters, Judge Juan Merchan asked: "Your client manipulated what was said and put it in quotes, am I right?"

"I wouldn’t use the word manipulation your honor," Donald Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche responded. "But the rest of the quote was not part of the quote."

Merchan said that Trump's post on the jury was not a repost.

"This is something that was said on TV and your client had to type it out. He had to sit there, use quotation marks, the shift key and type every thing out and then add those additional words," the judge said.

Blanche acknowledged that Trump's post about the jury was not a repost.

Judge Juan Merchan said he wants to hear an assertion under oath that Donald Trump believed he wasn't violating the gag order when he made the posts in question.

Merchan said: "How do I know that’s his position? Are you testifying under oath that that’s his position?"

"I'm not testifying, I'm making argument," attorney Todd Blanche replies.

"It's your client's position that when he reposts, he did not believe he was violating the gag order. I’d like to hear that. Or you just want me to accept it because you’re saying it?" Merchan says to Blanche.

We're learning more about Trump's social media in today's gag order hearing.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche says Trump has a "group of folks" who work with the former president and find articles they think Trump's audience should read.

“You’ve presented nothing," Judge Juan Merchan says to Trump attorney Todd Blanche. "I’ve asked you eight or nine times to show me the exact post he was responding to. You’ve been unable to do that even once."

Judge Juan Merchan is now asking how reposts get on Donald Trump's Truth Social feed.

He says, "It's not passive ... It means someone had to do something."

Merchan says that there is an active action to repost things, and he doesn't buy that by calling it a repost, "your client can wash your hands of it."

Judge Juan Merchan, speaking about Donald Trump's comments on Michael Cohen, said "using the name is not prohibited, making a connection to the trial is prohibited."

Trump attorney Todd Blanche argued the post in question has "nothing to do with this case," but rather, "it has to do with the system and the fact that President Trump very strongly believes the people should have prosecuted Mr. Cohen for lying."

Merchan then asked if Trump is "attacking Michael Cohen's credibility, like he was attacking Ms. Daniel’s credibility?"

Blanche said no, Trump is "attacking the people and the system for not prosecuting Michael Cohen for lying."

"There are two systems of justice," Blanche said, noting Allen Weisselberg is in jail for lying under oath and "Cohen is going to be a witness."

Judge Juan Merchan wants Todd Blanche to explain Donald Trump's post about former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.

Merchan asks why Trump had to discuss someone who's on the witness list.

Blanche says Pomerantz is not a witness expected to testify at trial.

Trump is talking to his attorney Emil Bove as the exchange gets a little more heated between Judge Juan Merchan and attorney Todd Blanche.

Trump who was watching Merchan whipped his head quickly to Bove to say something after the exchange.

"What I do see is, I keep asking you over and over again for a specific answer, and I’m not getting an answer," Merchan said to Blanche.

Judge Juan Merchan just raised his voice while talking to Donald Trump attorney Todd Blanche.

"I'm asking the questions. I'm going to be the one who decides whether your client is in contempt," he said.

"I keep asking you over and over again for a specific answer, and I’m not getting an answer," Merchan said to Blanche.