One former prosecutor said that the judge in the New York civil fraud trial was too soft on the former president.
It was a particularly bruising encounter. One one side was former President Donald Trump. On the other was his judicial nemesis, Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over Trump’s New York fraud trial and has already ruled that Trump committed fraud.
From the witness stand on Monday, Trump called Engoron a «hater» and accused him of being part of a Democratic Party conspiracy against him.
«You and every other Democrat district attorney, A.G., and U.S. attorney were coming at me from 15 different sides, all Democrats, all haters,» Trump said.
Trump, his two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as well as the Trump Organization, are co-defendants in the civil case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who accused the former president of inflating his net worth by billions of dollars to obtain benefits such as better bank loans and reduced tax bills.
Engoron accused Trump of making «speeches» from the witness stand and threatened to dismiss Trump and make «every negative inference I can.
