Judge in Manafort trial orders prosecutors to stop 'besmirching' Manafort with pictures of his fancy suits

The judge has spoken, and he's sick of Paul Manafort's $33,000 suits.

At the start of day three in the former Trump campaign chair's trial, Judge T.S. Ellis moved to block prosecutors from introducing more picture evidence of Manafort's lavish lifestyle, NBC News reports. Prosecutors on Thursday argued that Manafort's menswear collection proves his lust for luxury, but Ellis says it could "besmirch the defendant."

Manafort is currently undergoing the first trial of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe. He's facing charges of bank and tax fraud, after allegedly raking in millions as a Ukrainian political consultant and failing to report $15 million of it to the IRS. After his political job came to a halt in 2014, prosecutors say Manafort had built a lifestyle reliant upon obscene profits and started falsifying loans to maintain it.

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To illustrate Manafort's supposed greed, U.S. attorneys introduced $900,000 receipts from high-end Manhattan boutiques, stories of casually purchased $1.9 million homes, and 24 pictures of Manafort's pricey jackets, The New York Times reports. But Ellis, who says he doesn't recognize brands that aren't "Men's Wearhouse," apparently snapped Wednesday during a drawn-out definition of Manafort's "cedar pergola." On Thursday, he decided all these wild examples could "engender bias against rich people" even though it's not a crime to have money, per NBC News.

It is, however, a crime of manners to loquaciously explain a "pergola" when a quick image search would do the trick.