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The judge in Donald Trump’s defamation trial threatened Wednesday to kick him out of court because he “can’t control” himself. MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang transcribed the in-court dressing-down. Judge Lewis Kaplan had previously warned the former president several times to stop loudly “muttering” in the hearing of the jury. “Mr. Trump has the right to be present here,” Kaplan told the ex-president, “but that right can be forfeited, and I can be forfeited if he is disruptive and if he disregards court orders. Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial. I underst…