In his order, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron also shot down the argument that the Trump Organization was “vindicated” by the recent announcement made by the company’s accounting firm. The judge wrote that the idea of not being able to trust “a decade’s worth of financial statements that it issued based on numbers submitted by an entity somehow exonerates that entity and renders an investigation into its past practices moot is reminiscent of Lewis Carroll … George Orwell,'” per Politico.
But those weren’t the only arguments Engoron had to put down this week. Former president Donald Trump’s newest lawyer, Alina Habba, brought up numerous other issues, including why Hillary Clinton is not being investigated. “Are you going to go after Hillary Clinton for what she’s doing to my client?” Habba asked the attorney general of New York and Kevin Wallace, an attorney representing her in the hearing, according to Insider. “That she spied at Trump Tower in your state? Are you going to look into her business dealings?”
A conspiracy theory has recently resurfaced that Clinton spied on Trump while he was in the White House, Insider reports. The theory is built around a “misreading of court documents” that reported a lawyer with “connections to Clinton” accessed data legally from the White House, though it was “nonpublic data.”
Engoron’s response to the questions raised about Clinton was, “[T]he Clintons are not before me.”
