Trump assails judge in NY fraud lawsuit
Against him and his company Donald Trump is lashing out at the judge handling the New York attorney general’s fraud lawsuit, calling him “vicious, biased, and mean” just days before the case’s first court hearing in a social media post. Until after the midterm elections on Nov. 8 as a politician he shouldn’t be forced to deal with legal action, the former president, who has been on the losing side of Judge Arthur Engoron’s rulings in the past, coupled Friday’s criticism with complaints. In the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial following the completion of jury selection on Friday in a separate case, opening statements are set for Monday. For president in 2024 Trump, who has been laying groundwork for a possible comeback run, on the eve of an election that could put Republicans back on his Truth Social platform about having to deal with simultaneous court action in control of one or both houses of Congress grumbled in a post. Trump wrote “In breaking with a long standing and ...