Judge Questions Expert Witness Credibility, Rejects Trump’s Bid to Dismiss Civil Fraud Trial

The New York judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial rejected the latest bid to dismiss the case, questioning the credibility of a key defense witness and citing his nearly $900,000 fee. In his order denying a motion for a directed verdict on Monday, Judge Arthur Engoron rejected certain aspects of the defense’s arguments, focusing on what he deemed “fatal flaws” in their bid to have the case tossed for lack of evidence. The judge wrote that “the most glaring flaw” in the defense’s motion is the assumption by President Trump’s lawyers that the testimony of their experts “is true and accurate, or at least that the Court, as the trier of fact, will accept it as true and accurate.”...