New York City Judge Arthur Engoron ordered another crack on former President Donald Trump’s real estate trial.
On Friday, Engoron issued a directive preventing Trump from moving his assets without prior notification to a court-appointed monitor.
The order requires the former president and his co-defendants to reveal all entities they possess and to provide prior notice of “any anticipated transfer of assets or liabilities to any other entities.”
Trump blasted the court’s decision on the social media platform Truth Social, calling Engoron a “Trump-hating judge.”
“The ridiculous A.G. case against me in New York, brought by the Racist and Incompetent Peekaboo James, is being studied and mocked all over the World. Companies are Fleeing! It, and the highly political, Trump Hating Judge, are DESTROYING the Image and Reputation of the New York State Legal System & Courts,” he wrote.
“I don’t even get a Jury! All of this while MURDERS & VIOLENT CRIME HIT UNIMAGINABLE RECORDS! This is sooo bad for New York. HELP! The respected Commercial Division, where it should have been sent in the first place, must take over this ‘sh.. show,’” he continued.
This is the second order from Engoron since the trial began on Monday. On Tuesday, the judge issued a gag order against Trump after the former president criticized one of Engoron’s law clerks in the press and on social media.
Trump, however, may be onto something when a shocking video of Engoron admitting that he can change jury verdicts when they “get it wrong” recently surfaced online.
“I’ve had situations where I’m like, oh my heaven’s sake, how could they have thought that? Well, I have a tool that I can deal with that. It’s called judgment notwithstanding the verdict. I can say there is no possible way that a reasonable jury would have reached that conclusion,” Engoron is heard explaining to university students.
He then said that he has a “tool” for dealing with juries by raising a sartorial point of objection.
“I’m an impartial referee, but it’s hard to factor out my own emotions,” Engoron continued. “What if the defendant was wearing a red sweater instead of a blue sweater?”
Engoron drew criticism when he mugged for television cameras and shrugged in front of the courtroom audience during the first of Trump’s real estate appeal trial. Some claimed that the judge’s gesture indicated that he already saw the result as inevitable.
