'Cornered' Trump has 'lost before he started' in $250 million NYC fraud case: legal expert

Legal experts looking on from afar are calling Donald Trump's efforts to rid himself on the judge overseeing the $250 million fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against his Trump Organization a ploy that will likely fail, but he has little choice because the case against him is so strong.

In interviews with the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, the move by Trump's lawyers to use an Article 78 to challenge Justice Arthur F. Engoron, claiming he can't be impartial, was filed way too early with one legal observer calling the former president's move "transparent," by which they meant yet another delaying tactic.

According to the Beast's Pagliery, "Engoron—who is known for keeping his cool—became much less willing to play along with what became obvious delay tactics," adding, "When the AG filed her lawsuit in September 2022, the case was immediately assigned to Engoron, who was already familiar with its long and arduous history. But Trump lawyers once again tried—and failed—to get the case moved to a judge in the commercial division."