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The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s bank fraud trial is having none of the former president’s attempts to call for a mistrial, defending his law clerk and his own ability to be impartial as the real estate tycoon makes a longshot bid to scrap the entire legal battle.
In a six-page order on Friday, Justice Arthur F. Engoron responded to the Trump team’s latest request, calling the attempt “nonsensical.”
On Wednesday, the billionaire’s lawyers formally requested a mistrial—a desperate bid to avoid the increasingly likely outcome that the tycoon will lose his real estate empire and some $250 million or more over the way he routinely lied about his wealth on official documents.