Trump Rages About Disbarring Judge During Break, Great Strategy, Huh?

Let’s start out with a quick poll: how many of you think it’s a good idea to trash the presiding judge who is going to decide your future, much less in the hallway while on break from the trial? I thought so. Nobody sane is going to behave this way. Before trial started this morning Donald Trump trashed the attorney general, Letitia James, and said, “You’re to go after her,” and then here’s what he said about Judge Arthur Engoron.

This is a judge who is going to decide how many millions you are going to have to pay. He just added a zero to the end of it. https://t.co/7LUL9QvAsn

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 2, 2023

And here he is raging and complaining about the court clerk of all things. That’s a first.

I can’t state clearly enough that any other litigant doing this would get in a heap of trouble with the judge. https://t.co/D7Kawi1TAV

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) October 2, 2023

Bradley Moss is entirely right. This is unique, except for Trump, to watch a criminal defendant claim that the judge should be accused of a crime or to complain about the court clerk, and needless to say the political allegations are hooey.

Trump also said that Letitia james is a “corrupt person” and a “terrible person.” Well, at least he didn’t call her a communist. Yet. Liz Harrington, one of Trump’s paid shills, called the judge a “commie” today. Talk about a flash back to the 50’s. Those were fighting words. You didn’t accuse anybody of being a commie unless you seriously wanted trouble.

I can’t wait until Judge Engoron hands down a verdict with damages in it, although first I hope he’ll consider a gag order. Trump is inciting MAGA to violence. There’s no other way to interpret this.

And for the nth time I mourn the fact that this case isn’t being televised. I guess we will have that privilege in the Georgia election racketeering case. Thank heavens for that. Trump will now give a bogus version of today’s proceedings to right-wing media and his MAGAs will swallow it hook, line and sinker.

Alina Habba isn’t Trump’s lawyer, she’s his lady-in-waiting. No lawyer would allow a defendant to behave like that. But again, and always, we deal with a man who has no regard for the rule of law and who advocated dissolving the Constitution. He’s literally running to run the government that he tried to overthrow when he ran it before because he’s running from the law.

Fantastic but true.