Donald ‘Von ShitzInPantz’ has now formally been entered into the public record at Trump’s hush money trial – MASHAHER

• Testimony in Donald Trump‘s NY trial was delayed Thursday morning by still more gag-violation arguments.

• “Everybody can say anything they want except for President Trump!” his lawyer complained.

• Trump’s lawyers flagged Biden’s “stormy weather” and Michael Cohen’s Donald ‘Von ShitzInPants’ cracks.

Another week, another contempt-of-court hearing for Donald Trump — and this one was a doozy.

On Thursday morning, prosecutors at Trump’s Manhattan hush-money trial argued that he violated his gag order last week, when he made four on-camera statements attacking witnesses and the jury.

Things got weird when defense attorney Todd Blanche complained that Trump must remain silent about witnesses and jurors while his opponents get to say “anything they want.”

That’s when President Joe Biden and Donald “Von ShitzInPants” made their bizarre cameo appearances on the official trial record.

Biden “mocked President Trump,” Blanche complained to the judge, quoting into the record a joke the president had made at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday.

“Donald has had a few tough days lately. You might call it stormy weather,” Biden had quipped in a very apparent reference to Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the center of the hush-money trial.

“President Trump can’t respond to that” by criticizing Daniels, Blanche lamented Thursday to the judge, state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.

Likewise, Trump’s ex-personal attorney-turned-nemesis, Michael Cohen, can take whatever potshot he chooses, Blanche told the judge.

But Trump must remain silent, Blanche complained, even when Cohen mocks him as Donald “Von ShitzInPantz,” a favorite insult of Cohen’s podcast and his account on the social media site X.

Blanche proceeded to read that colorfully worded, offending tweet into the record as Trump himself sat listening at the defense table.

“Hey Von ShitzInPantz,” Blanche recited as the court stenographer duly followed along.

“Your attacks of me stink of desperation,” Blanche continued, quoting the tweet. “We are all hoping that you take the stand in your defense.”

“Everybody can say anything they want except for President Trump,” Blanche told the judge.

Blanche read a few more Cohen tweets into the record. Again, Trump was required to remain seated to his left, listening.

They included this direct Cohen taunt: “Keep messing with me Donald and I won’t send any money to your commissary!”

Last week, Cohen pledged to stop talking about Trump on X for as long as a month, until after his testimony in the trial is over.

Now, “Michael Cohen has gone on TikTok, nightly” and makes money from it, Blanche complained to the judge.

Merchan has already found Trump in contempt of court for gag violations.

Last Thursday, he fined the GOP frontrunner $9,000 for nine online attacks on witnesses and jurors.

The judge did not immediately rule on the four additional Trump statements now before him.

Prosecutors are asking that Trump be fined another $4,000, the maximum allowed, for the four on-camera statements Trump made last week.

Contempt of court is punishable under New York law by as much as 30 days in jail per violation. The DA’s office has not asked for jail.

However, prosecutors and the judge have warned that jail may be appropriate if there are future violations.

He’s done it again

“He’s already been found to have violated the order nine times and he’s done it again here,” prosecutor Christopher Conroy told the judge as the morning hearing began.

He was asking for $4,000 in new fines for Trump’s most recent batch of four allegedly gag-violating statements.

In one of the challenged statements, Trump had complained, “that jury was picked so fast;” he also claimed the jury was “95% democrats.”

Trump made that statement last Thursday, Conroy noted, “hours before he had a hearing here relating to his previous allegations.”

In another challenged statement from April 25, Trump praised the start of testimony by National Enquirer owner David Pecker.

“He’s been very nice,” Trump told reporters of Pecker.

“This is classic carrot and stick,” Conroy told the judge, about a witness who “was going to be testifying an hour later.”

This was Trump warning, “I have a platform,” Conroy said. “So be nice.”

In his other challenged statements, Trump called Cohen “a convicted liar” and condemned his lack of credibility.

Trump’s gag violations have been “persistent and escalating,” the prosecutor told the judge.

“His statements are corrosive to this proceeding and to the fair administration of justice,” the prosecutor added.

“Not a man that needs protection”

The judge showed skepticism toward Blanche’s argument that Trump “can’t say anything.”

“You’re saying he can’t respond to what President Biden said?” the judge asked Blanche at one point, his voice sounding incredulous.

“There’s nothing in the gag order that says he can’t,” the judge told Trump’s lawyer.

But the judge also appeared sympathetic to Blanche’s complaints that Cohen and Daniels enjoy the protection of gag order while have carte blanche to attack Trump — and continue to do so.

“They’re not defendants in this case,” Merchan said. “I can’t extend a gag order to them. I just don’t have the authority.”

Merchan can, however, remove Cohen from the gag order’s protection, something the judge suggested last week he would consider.

“They’re all similar,” Blanche complained of Cohen’s relentless jabs at Trump. “They’re over the top about his character, about his candidacy.”

The lawyer added, of Cohen, “This is not a man that needs protection from the gag order.”

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