NEW YORK — Donald Trump — with his “prolific history” of “baselessly” questioning the ethics of judges he doesn’t like — shouldn’t get to dictate who presides over the Stormy Daniels hush money case, Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, opposing the former president’s demand to force the judge on the hush money case to recuse himself, said entertaining the effort would signal that all defendants can shop for judges.
Bragg’s office referenced some of Trump’s most notorious attacks on authorities, including a judge who he said was “totally biased” against him because of his “Mexican heritage” during a 2016 class-action lawsuit against the since-defunct Trump University. He’s called Manhattan Supreme Court judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against the Trump Organization, a “Trump Hating Judge,” and the AG, who is Black, a “racist.”
