Trump Launches New Conspiracy Theory About Reporters In His Fraud Trial Courtroom

Donald Trump shared a post on Truth Social this week - twice, apparently - stating that a reporter in the courtroom was secretly Judge Arthur Engoron's son. The reporter was actually just a regular guy that was reporting on the trial for The New York Post who immediately tried to set the record straight, but the damage was likely already done. This isn't the first time that Trump has launched attacks by misidentifying people in the courtroom, and it probably won't be the last. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Donald Trump continues to get duped by some of the stupidest people on social media. On Wednesday of this week, twice, twice, on Wednesday of this week, Donald Trump shared a post on truth social from Laura Loomer that was shared by George Santos. And this post from Laura Loomer claims that a bearded man sitting in the courtroom for New York, uh, for Donald Trump's New York fraud trial, this bearded man was in fact Judge Arthur Enger, Ron's son. And he was given, being given, excuse me, preferential treatment, sitting right there in the front row, you know, a firsthand account of Donald Trump's trial, which somehow would benefit the man if he were Judge Arthur Engerman's son. Like little murky on that part, right? Like, okay, if if it's his son, like who? Okay, his son's in the courtroom. Oh no. Like what, what does that even have to do with anything that doesn't affect the outcome?

And it especially doesn't affect the outcome. 'cause the man is actually not Judge Arthur Engerman's son. He is a reporter by the name of Ben Coman for the New York Post. And he had to put out an op-Ed saying, I'm the guy in the photo. I'm not Judge Ingerman's son. I I, I'm just there reporting on it 'cause it's my job. Like, why, why are you even saying I'm his son? Like, what? That doesn't even make sense. You just picked a random dude in the crowd. I'm like, Nope, that's his son. And you know how we know that she just picked a random dude and made this baseless claim because she did it last month too. Just a random guy in the courtroom. And Loomer goes out there like, this is Inger, Ron's son. And then when it's like, Nope, nope, that's not, she's like, okay, well this guy's anger on suck.

Like she's playing Guess who with the fricking crowd in the New York fraud trial. And Trump repeats it Trump's like, oh, look at this, this is terrible. George Santos said he raised this issue and this is what Trump had shared too. Raise the issue with his former colleagues, but they didn't do anything about it. What are they gonna do? Even if it were Iran's son? What would they do? Like you can't bring your kids to court. But like that, that doesn't change the the trial at all. He's not letting his grown adult son take takeover proceedings for the day. It's just a dude in the courtroom. To make things worse, Donald Trump also, uh, repeated his false claims by sharing posts on true social alleging that Judge Jinger's wife is posting all these anti-Trump things on social media when in fact she doesn't have a social media. Trump had made these claims a couple weeks ago and it had already been debunked, but he's still doing it again, still attacking Judge Geron, falsely

Attacking people that he thinks may be his son falsely attacking people that are not his wife 'cause he thinks it's his wife. It's just a real stupid thing because again, Donald Trump continues to get duped by some of these stupidest people on social media. Kind of shows you how Donald Trump's thought process works there, right? He doesn't need facts. He doesn't need evidence. If a crazy person tells him something by God, he's gonna share it on a social media feed. And that seems to be kind of pretty much his mo.