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Former President Donald Trump finished off the closing arguments in his civil fraud trial in New York with a personal speech that had to be cut short by the judge. Ultimately, Trump’s lawyers dropped the ball by letting this happen, argued former prosecutor Charles Coleman on Thursday’s edition of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut.” “Look, I’m not a lawyer, but even I know, if you represent yourself, you have a fool for a client,” said anchor Joy Reid. “Have you ever as a prosecutor seen a defendant in a case, particularly when there’s no jury, if there’s no jury to convince, it’s the judge that gets to de…