Judge denies recusal in Trump civil fraud trial

Donald Trump and his team are pretty sure that Judge Arthur Engoron was NOT a good choice to oversee Trump's civil fraud case in November.

As a result, Donald Trump's lawyers have been adamant that Arthur Engoron needs to remove himself from Donald Trump's case, as a result of the judge not being able to think in an unbiased manner.

Judge Arthur Engoron is officially rejecting any and all calls for him to step away from the New York trial of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump's team is alleging that one of the reasons Engoron should be disqualified from the trial is because of a conversation that Engoron apparently had with a lawyer about Trump's verdict before it was announced.

Engoron has disputed that this conversation ever took place, instead telling a version of events that saw Engoron get cornered and forced to listen to legal ramblings against his will.

While Judge Engoron did admit that the conversation took place, Arthur doesn't think it warrants him stepping away because he received an "unsolicited diatribe about a law with which I was fully familiar and in which I was fully immersed, by a non-party and non-expert who conveyed no facts."

Engoron released an 8-page ruling stating that he would not be recusing himself.

"As no grounds for mandatory recusal exist here, it is up to me and my conscience to determine whether this 90-second, unsolicited diatribe about a law with which I was fully familiar and in which I was fully immersed, by a non-party and non-expert who conveyed no facts, in any way affected my adjudication of a dispute over which I had presided for three and a half years, during which time I had already issued several dispositive decisions."

"I hereby definitively state that it did not," Engoron concluded.

The lawyer in question was New York attorney Adam Leitman Bailey, who said he approached Engoron to tell him "what I think and why" to help Engoron's ruling.

What do you think about this story?

Should Donald Trump be able to get a new judge?

Or should Engoron be allowed to stay on the case?

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