Defiant Donald Trump slams ’total sham’ $355m fraud fine handed to him by ’crooked judge’

Donald Trump on Saturday (February 17) lashed out at the New York judge who ruled he must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders, telling thousands of supporters at a campaign rally the decision was an “election interference ploy.“ Addressing supporters for the first time since Justice Arthur Engoron on Friday (February 16) hit him with massive financial penalties, Trump made the unsubstantiated claim that the judge was part of a “left-wing“ conspiracy aimed at stopping him from becoming president again. The former Republican president, the frontrunner for his party’s White House nomination, told a crowd in Michigan that “these repulsive abuses of power are not just an attack on me, they are an attack on all Americans.“ Trump also repeated his lie that his 2020 election defeat to Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden was due to election fraud. Read more: