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A Manhattan judge ordered Donald J. Trump to the witness stand Wednesday, creating the spectacle of a former president called to account before finding that Mr. Trump had attacked a court clerk and fining him $10,000.
Mr. Trump, wearing a navy suit and for the most part refraining from his usual lengthy monologues, testified that negative comments he had made earlier in the day had referred not to the judge’s law clerk — whom he is barred from attacking — but to Michael D. Cohen, who was testifying for a second day.
From the stand, Mr. Trump said that he had not been referring to the clerk, Allison Greenfield. But he added that he thought the clerk was “maybe unfair and I think she’s very biased against me.”
AfterMr. Trump left the stand, having testified for about three minutes, the judge, Arthur F. Engoron, said that he had not found the former president credible and levied the fine.
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