A high-profile New York real estate lawyer’s claim that he approached the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud case to offer unsolicited advice about a law at issue in the case “can’t be the only ex parte discussion or conversation Judge [Arthur] Engoron had in deciding this case” and requires “much more inquiry as to whether or not the judge was completely corrupted by outside influences,” said former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.

Engoron’s opinion “just on its own is completely unfounded in the law and in the facts,” Whitaker said Thursday during an appearance on Newsmax’s “The Chris Salcedo Show.”

“I just think this is another example of how the left, through vehicles like this judge, have tried to railroad Donald Trump.”

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