Trump claimed in the post that Carroll’s rape and groping allegations against him are a “made up scam” among other claims. Judge Kaplan said on Wednesday that these comments were “entirely inappropriate” and took issue with Trump’s claiming that Carroll “didn’t want to produce” DNA evidence, noting that “he, [Trump] for three years, refused to give a DNA sample, and now he wants it in the case?”

Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, said he will ask Trump to “refrain from any further posts regarding this case,” with the judge warning that Trump “may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability,” with these comments.

[Good luck with that, counselor. — Ed]