'This is lawlessness': Trump lashes out on Judge Engoron in midnight rant
Following his last rally in Iowa on Saturday night, Donald Trump went on a midnight all-cap tirade aimed at Supreme Court 1st Judicial District Judge Arthur Engoron accusing him of "lawlessness."
The former president took time out from sharing clips from his Iowa speeches to rail at the judge who is overseeing the financial fraud trial that wrapped up final arguments last week at which time New York Attorney General Letitia James increased her request for $250 million in penalties to $370 million.
Doubtless with that in mind, the former president first attacked the valuation assigned to his Mar-a-Lago estate in the civil case, before moving on to his latest rant about the unfairness of it all.
"Just a small piece of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. New York State Judge Engoron values it at $18,000,000 in order to help his and Racist A.G. James’ CORRUPT & RIGGED case against me, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount. No jury, No Victim, only profits and success. WITCH HUNT!!!," he wrote.
Moments later he added, "IF JUDGE ENGORON IS ALLOWED TO DISREGARD THE COMPLETE APPELLATE DIVISION VICTORY THAT WE HAD IN JUNE, THEN THE RULE OF LAW IN NEW YORK STATE, AND INDEED OUR COUNTRY, WILL NEVER RECOVER. THE JUDGE HAS SO DISRESPECTED THE COURT OF APPEALS, IN THAT HE CONSIDERS THIS BIGGEST OF ALL LEGAL EVENTS TO HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, THAT NEW YORK STATE, AND OUR NATION AS A WHOLE, CANNOT ALLOW THIS TERRIBLE WRONGDOING TO TAKE PLACE."
"THIS IS LAWLESSNESS BY A JUDGE THE LIKES OF WHICH OUR COUNTRY HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE. A VICTORY IS A VICTORY! LET IT BE," he continued. "FIGHT VIOLENCE ON N.Y. STREETS, AND STOP THE MASS EXODUS OF OUR PEOPLE, OUR BUSINESSES, & OUR WEALTH OUT OF OUR ONCE GREAT STATE, & INTO OTHER, FAR MORE HOSPITABLE ONES. MAKE NEW YORK STATE GREAT AGAIN!"
