He never stops whining
For most people this would be considered a very stupid move. Publicly chastising a jude who is overseeing your case makes little sense. First this is all about delay so that he can argue it’s all a political weapon against a presidential candidate. He thinks he can appeal the case if he loses and use this judge’s alleged bias and, if necessary, get his handpicked federal judges to step in. And in the end, he believes he can always deploy his army of gun-toting, sore-lose malcontents on his behalf.
Still, you’d think his followers would get tired of hearing this on a broken record. It’s wearying:
Donald Trump is lashing out at the judge handling the New York attorney general’s fraud lawsuit against him and his company, calling him “vicious, biased, and mean” in a social media post just days before the case’s first court hearing.
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 that — as a politician — he shouldn’t be forced to deal with legal action until after the midterm elections on Nov. 8.
In a separate case, opening statements are set for Monday in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial following the completion of jury selection on Friday.
Trump, who has been laying groundwork for a possible comeback run for president in 2024, grumbled in a post on his Truth Social platform about having to deal with simultaneous court action on the eve of an election that could put Republicans back in control of one or both houses of Congress.
“In breaking with a long standing and powerful tradition where cases involving politicos are not to be brought or tried just prior to, or during, a major Election (the Midterms), I have THREE, all run and inspired by Democrats, who absolutely refused to move the date,” Trump wrote. “They demanded it be now. So much for tradition and unwritten rules and laws!!!”
There are currently three active cases involving Trump or the Trump Organization in New York courts.
The company’s criminal tax fraud trial, which involves allegations that senior executives received off-the-books compensation, could last into December. Six alternate jurors were picked Friday to complete the panel needed for the trial.
On Monday, jury selection is scheduled to begin in the Bronx in a civil lawsuit brought by protesters who say they were roughed up by Trump’s security guards.
Trump’s outburst about Engoron came in the third case, a civil lawsuit filed by Attorney General Letitia James, after an administrative judge refused Tuesday to have the matter reassigned to another judge.
Engoron, a Democrat, repeatedly had ruled against Trump in disputes over subpoenas, holding him in contempt and fining him $110,000 for being slow to turn over documents and forcing him to sit for a deposition — testimony in which Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination more than 400 times.
The idea that he thinks he shouldn’t be pursued while an election is going on is amazing, even for him. He’s a civilian, he’s not on any ballot. He thinks he can declassify every classified document in the US government if it merely crosses his mind so does he also think that he’s exempt from the law just because he’s thinking about running in the future? I guess so.