The judge in the New York City case against Donald Trump and the Trump organization has transparently been a little goofy. From the first day when he posed for the cameras, to the sketchy application of legal review within the case, Judge Arthur Engoron exhibits the classic traits of being weird and unstable.
There is a pattern amid the deployment of Lawfare that deserves some background context. Whenever Lawfare is deployed there are always background characters who are seemingly needed to keep the bizarre interpretations of Lawfare tactics on track.
We saw this play out with Debra Katzenberg, Monica McLean and David Laufman controlling Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey-Ford. We saw it again with Mary McCord playing the role in the background of the Trump Lawfare impeachment to guide Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff. We saw it again with Andrew Weissmann and Norm Eisen guiding Special Prosecutor Jack Smith from the backbench of Lawfare. In each case the principal activity is guided by Lawfare ideologues who use position to influence.
In the Judge Engoron example, court clerk Allison Greenfield has been passing notes and instructions to Engoron as the case has progressed. The activity has become so disconcerting that Trump’s lawyers have called it out in court as it happens {Breitbart Link}. In response to the sunlight upon the visible activity, Judge Engoron has now expanded his gag order to prohibit Trump’s lawyers from drawing attention to the activity of Ms. Greenfield.
NEW YORK — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s ongoing civil fraud trial issued another gag order on Friday — this time prohibiting all lawyers working on the trial from “from making any public statements, in or out of court, that refer to any confidential communications, in any form, between my staff and me.” (link)
The issuance of the gag order is weird because the entire dynamic of the clerk instructing the judge is weird. The gag order is an effort by Engoron to stop people from noticing it…. Yeah, that’s exponentially weirder.
POLITICO – [Trump Attorney Chris] Kise complained about Greenfield’s habit of passing notes to Engoron during proceedings, suggesting she is improperly influencing his decisions. Engoron reacted sharply to that complaint, telling Kise, “I have an unfettered, absolute right to consult with my law clerks” and saying he wouldn’t tolerate future comments about his staff.
Kise, though, continued to argue that he needed to state objections on the record for the purposes of an eventual appeal. “If notes are being passed at certain specific times or they’re being passed in a way that might indicate some bias,” he said, “that’s a record that needs to be made contemporaneously.” (more)
As noted by Henry Rossof from inside the court today, “Judge Engoron said he will note a continuing objection to his consultation with his clerk but does not want anything more said about her… he will still consult.”
“I have an absolute, unfettered right to consult with my law clerks anywhere, anytime,” Engoron noted. “There’s no more need to make a record” [of it within the court when it occurs] he concluded.
After this series of exchanges today, Engoron then expanded his court order to forbid the Trump lawyers from telling the public about what was happening between him and his clerk in the court.
Yup, weird, sketchy and fitting right in with the pattern of how Lawfare is deployed.
These people are ideologically not stable.
I hope he ends up being committed. Clerk disbarred.
True, but it’s NYC so… the clerk will become Governor of NY some day and, assuming the dem’s steal the next election again, the judge will end up on the supreme court.
Engoron, Greenfield and James are tragic by-products of more than 5 million illegal or invalid voter registrations hidden within the NYS Board of Elections rolls.
The positioning of the chairs is the observable clowning of Justice, a LawFare side effect.
The placement of chairs is explored in this comic farce:
Well seeing that the appointment to SCOTUS is a lifetime appointment, my guess is he won’t be there long.
Skeletons in Judge Arthur Engoron’s closet? Guaranteed, his clerk too.
They don’t need skeletons, these whack jobs love this power.
Judge Roy Bean’s court had more legitimacy than this fool’s circus.
Judge Roy Bean was far more legally eloquent.
This Engoron is clearly bark at the moon bonkers. And even that is poorly done.
You see it and you hear it, but you can’t speak of it. this is a really strange movie we’re watching.
I have that same (the cat) look on my face. I still have trouble processing all of this insanity, how asleep was I?
Engoron looks like someone who escaped from a mental institution.
I think he looks like a crazy version of Bob Denver from Gilligan’s Island
The 60s are calling this guy. Too many drugs imbibed in his “yout”.
He looks like the brother of that crazy dude in the Depp/Heard trial…the one who was chewing his gums like he was jonesing for some crack.
There was a judge in my early years of practicing law that was just plain nuts. We all knew it and found different ways to deal with him and his crazy behavior and off the wall rulings. His staff knew it too. They were constantly putting out his fires and whispering in his ear and passing him notes. That’s what is going on here although the fixer/staff is herself an ideological nut.
Sort of like Gríma advising Theoden…
Maybe they’re all part of some religious cult. Judging from the names I’m guessing Islam.
Trump’s lawyers have filed a complaint with the New York State Bar about Greenfield’s very transparent violation of state law concerning election campaign financing. Employees of the court are prohibited from giving more than $500. Greenfield has given as much as 6 times that amount. I do not know if this expansion of the gag order occurred before or after that filing.
Oh, I didn’t know the Trump campaign filed that. I thought that was another, unrelated entity that filed it.
And as usual, the list of similar sounding names that we aren’t allowed to notice.
Muslims right?
That’s who runs NYC, regardless of who’s Mayor. Swaggerman is about to find that out.
Reotardo, is that ethnic?
What happened to the court setting? Normally a judge is the ONLY one sitting there, other than a officer of the court to the side standing. That conartist girl SHOULD NOT BE THERE passing notes!! The judge is obviously STUPID!!!
This is absolutely a RIGGED, CORRUPT case!!!
You can see from this obscene abuse of the NY judicial system how gone NY is. Hard to believe that one of the greatest states in America is now completely corrupted and dysfunctional. But that’s what Democrats do. It is very sad, but NY is gone, gone, gone. No one of sanity should stay there.
Why don’t we call these people what they are, communists?
I usually go with “totalitarians” but communist works too.
So if it is legal and acceptable….
why is the judge making a big deal….
out of the defense noting it….????
The court clerk’s notes should be…. included in the “record”….or there shouldn’t be any notes passed.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a terrible disease. Many are susceptible. Our current society is showing the ill effects of it.
The judge may have a right to communicate with his clerk but the public have a greater right to discuss and comment on their malfeasance and corruption. Every episode whereby the clerk instructs the judge should be entered on the record. The corrupt judge does not want his corruption to reach the public. He is used to his corrupt behavior going unchecked.
I wonder if the clerk is acting for lawfare agents, passing their instructions to the judge? Does she have an earphone or is someone else giving her instructions to be passed to judge? Are lawfare agents engaged in obstruction of justice?
Don’t rely on state supreme courts either. In my upstate red county only one out of the 3 seats on the ballot are being contested by the gop. Two seats are unopposed democrats.
That’s in New York State.
Uniparty unity.
This is all the plan of the most evil, nefarious American ever: Barack Hussein Obama. Hard to believe anyone has or ever will equal his deviance. He involved others (Zuckerberg, Soros, etc.) to rig the 2020 election through many facets, to take out Trump. When Trump announced his candidacy for 2024, he gathered all the filth possible to bring unlawful charges against him, which have only strengthened DJT’s popularity. Undoubtedly, the 2024 election is already rigged and waiting to present the results. There is nothing we can do, outside of civil war. It’s already decided. BHO is the ultimate Ugly American. His revenge is the demise of America.
BHO is a puppet.
The Globalists control him and Satan controls the Globalists.
Obambi is not an American.
Trump seems to have a bit of a smirk on his face. I do feel when all this is over, Trump should ruin all those who attempted to convict, both professionally and financially. Judges, lawyers, politicians and apparently now court clerks.
No pay per view TV needed, just 24/7 coverage of perp walks with photos and video. Their lives and families exposed for supposed misdeeds.
When they apologize for doing what they’ve been doing, admitting they knew it was wrong at the time, then, and only then will they be given a used up 1 ton work van to set up their new home, after serving a prison sentence.
They can learn carpentry skills in prison, which will make their lives easier when they rehab the van into living space upon their release.
You’re a dreamer, aren’t you?
Are you saying it’s not possible?
Not me. Nothing like a dreamer to keep things in a positive mood.
Wonder if the judge has the hots for his clerk?
Maybe those notes are setting up a romantic rendezvous?
He sure seems touchy about any comments concerning her.
The “her” part of your theory is questionable.
He needs to be stripped of his law license and imprisoned for treason against the Constitution.
If it weren’t for unequal justice, there would be no justice at all.
This FILTHY Corrupt Judge is the type you hunt down when the Purge starts. ..To tell him he talked to his “Clerk” too much…
What is up with the background boring music and the intech ads all over the place that can’t be shut off??? It is getting intolerable !!
Not happening on my laptop.
Brave browser blocks a lot of stuff.
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Even Stalin had more legitimate “Show Trials” than this kankaroo jester’s kourt.
Boy this Judge is stupid. He needs to put Trump in jail since Trump is making him look like a fool.
This term was in an article about Colorado’s attempt to deny President Trump of his Constitutional right to hold public office: SCOTUS will have a discretionary review ?
What is a “SCOTUS discretionary review”, do We The People have a chance in hell of requesting a DISCRETIONARY REVIEW of the case and this judge???
Such open corruption and pandering to the press…Democrats – from their Judges, to their politicians, to their teachers – are all insane and destructive. More and more they demonstrate their motto is “Rules for thee, but not for me”……
How is it that this guy is still a judge? He looks like he should have retired some time ago.
Realisticly he has one foot in a grave and the other on a banana peel.
Is it that he just cannot relinquish the power he seems to be able to wield?
He will end up out on a ledge somewhere.
Hopefully close to where I’ll be standing.
Frightening how many like him are wandering about the countries courtrooms…
Is there a single deep state / Illegal Republic elite who is not compromised and controlled by political commissars / handlers?
This judge comes across at the kind of weirdo that could only have been advanced because of his corruption and membership of private networks
It’s very common, Elon. Very common….Biden Didnt Win – We All Know It
Elon continues to get up to speed at an accelerating pace. Probably just how the guy operates. Look for him to be a major player in the restoration of our country. There’s only a few. But they are becoming easier to identify all the time.
Yep, but this asshole still gets away with it. 😡
As President Trump is known to say, “Sick People!”
I don’t get this? The main element of fraud is missing here?
The banks & insurance companies weren’t harmed.
If banks & insurance companies relied on Trump’s floor measurements the insurance premiums and loan repayments would result in excess profits to all entities from which Trump obtained insurance and bank loans.
Are the lawyers going to be arrested if they object in court, then speak of the objection afterwards?
The Judge is obviously a puppet and the clerk is his handler. But who is instructing her? Passing notes in court? Make a discovery motion for the notes then get her computer, text and phone records. She’s being handled from Leticia James’ office who take their orders from the DOJ.
I really hate these leftist commy turds
Well politicians milked that one dru.
Off we go to the next disaster worth billions of dollars in payouts.
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Whoops! Posted in thee Wrong Place!
My bad! Sorry! 😳
Plus what’s up with “dru” — I meant dry!
Sundance … make certain you ALWAYS show the “judge’s” picture with his yellow teeth.