Trump falsely claims a N.Y. Post reporter seated in court is Judge Engoron's son: report
Trump's been falsely accusing Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron's son of rooting on from the gallery. But the "well-groomed" man in the photo that the 45th president has repeatedly posted on Truth Social claiming as such smack below the fat red arrow is actually a New York Post reporter.
Ben Kochman penned a first-person account to correct the record in a story titled: "It's me, Don!"
"The Post can now confirm that the pictured bespectacled, well-groomed target is not the kin of Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron," he wrote. "I should know — I’m the guy in the photo."
Former President Donald Trump and his grown sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. along with other Trump Organization executives are on trial in Lower Manhattan in a $250 million civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James accusing them of committing widespread fraud to exaggerate the former president's net work to gain better deal terms and loans.
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Kochman wrote how the 77-year-old one-term president seeking second, repeatedly used a photo showing the people seated in the gallery accompanying "fringe-right activist" Lara Loomer article from Nov. 7 that was "inexplicably claiming Engoron’s son is 'financially benefitting' from being given a 'prominent' seat at the trial."
He noted that the post reaches Trump’s 6.52 million followers on his app Truth Social.
Apparently Kochman first learned about the false identification on social media by the former commander in chief back in late November, but at the time he "felt it wasn’t worth giving any air."
Then Trump did it again.
He posted the snap and, Kochman writes, "upped the ante by including a comment from famously fact-challenged disgraced ex-Congressman George Santos."
That was enough for him.
"I thought it was worth setting the record straight," the reporter wrote.