Trump’s Legal Team Tries to Undermine His New York Bank Fraud Judgment

The New York justice on the case is allowing Trump’s legal team to subpoena the lawyer who says he gave the judge “unsolicited advice” before the order.

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The nearly half-billion-dollar judgment against Trump and two of his sons, Don Jr. and Eric, threatens to cripple the former president’s finances. Paul Sancya/AP

Donald Trump’s desperate search for a smoking gun to tank his bank fraud judgment continues, this time with an attempt to question a lawyer who crossed paths with the New York judge who hit Trump with a half-billion-dollar judgment.

New York Justice Arthur F. Engoron, under pressure to appear as impartial as possible, green-lighted Trump’s request to subpoena a lawyer who publicly admitted he tried to offer “unsolicited advice” to the judge weeks before the order came down.

In May, NBC reported that Adam Leitman Bailey — a real estate lawyer who once had his bar license suspended — randomly approached the judge to let him “know what I think and why … I really want him to get it right.” According to a source who spoke to NOTUS, Bailey hurriedly approached the judge as Engoron was making his way through the courthouse and muttered something about the statutes at issue in the case.