Donald Trump’s lawyers filed a motion seeking the recusal of New York Judge Arthur Engoron from the former president’s civil fraud trial, arguing he had an improper conversation with an outside attorney.
“Allegations have surfaced revealing this Court may have engaged in actions fundamentally incompatible with the responsibilities attendant to donning the black robe and sitting in judgment,” Trump’s attorneys wrote in their motion filed with the New York Supreme Court Thursday.
The filing stems from a Feb. 16 NBC News interview in which the lawyer admitted to approaching Engoron three weeks before his $364 million ruling against Trump, offering unsolicited advice which the judge accepted.
“I saw him in the corner [at the courthouse] and I told my client, ‘I need to go.’ And I walked over and we started talking. … I wanted him to know what I think and why … I really want him to get it right,” attorney Adam Leitman Bailey said during the broadcast. […]
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