https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-judge-engoron-lawsuit-fraud-new-york-086316190147
Judge in Trump’s fraud trial was drinking water, not alcohol, as viral videos claim
CLAIM: Video clips show the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s fraud case in New York drinking from a bottle of alcohol during court sessions.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The green bottles in the videos match the label and distinctive design of Mountain Valley Spring Water, not Tanqueray gin, as online posts suggest. A court spokesperson and the Arkansas-based bottled water company both confirmed the judge was sipping from a Mountain Valley container.
THE FACTS: As the former president’s fraud trial opened in New York this week, social media users shared videos they claimed showed the presiding judge openly sipping from a large bottle of alcohol during court proceedings.
Some shared a video from inside this week’s session at New York Supreme Court in Manhattan in which Judge Arthur Engoron is seen seated at the bench at the head of the courtroom dressed in a justice’s traditional black robe.
On the left hand side of his desk, next to his computer monitor, is a large, green-colored glass bottle that a number of users suggested was Tanqueray’s distinctive green bottle of gin.
“Corrupt Justice Arthur Engoron -- New York’s Hobo Judge,” wrote one Facebook user who shared the video in a post that’s been liked or shared more than 5,000 times as of Friday afternoon.
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