New York Attorney General Letitia James is now the latest recipient of the Judas Kiss from one of her liberal legal colleagues. It couldn’t happen to a better person. James is currently embroiled in a Justice Department prosecution, but, according to the left-wing turncoat, she has no one to blame but herself.
Elie Honig, a former prosecutor and contributor with CNN, wrote an op-ed blaming James for the “retributive mess” she’s now facing. This led to a series of political prosecutions that ultimately culminated in charges that she fibbed on federal forms in order to get favorable mortgage terms on several properties.
A corrupt Democrat lying and being dishonest to cheat others? Color me shocked.
If you remember correctly, James prosecuted President Donald Trump for mortgage fraud, securing a $500 million state judgment against him, which, at the moment, is still in appeals court. Ironic, right?
James slaps charges of mortgage fraud against Trump, but it was her who was committing the crime all along.
“It’s a fact, beyond reasonable dispute, that Letitia James weaponized her official power as New York’s attorney general to pursue Donald Trump for political purposes,” Honig says in a piece published by New York Magazine. “It’s equally clear that the Trump administration is now targeting James for payback. The downward spiral of prosecutorial retribution has begun, and there will be no winners.”
Oh, I don’t know about there not being any winners. If those who participated in lawfare against American citizens reap what they sow, the American people are the ones who are victorious. It will discourage people in positions of power from using the legal system as a weapon against their political opposition.
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Trump’s prosecution of James alleges that she purposefully listed her father as her husband and claimed a Virginia property as her homestead, among other violations that the attorney general’s lawyers say amount to innocent clerical errors. Defiant statements from her press office have called the case a “weaponization” of the Justice Department, ironically the same cry of lawfare that Trump claimed against her in 2023. To be sure, James in 2018 won her first election to the office on a series of promises to “get Trump,” tweeting at one point she would be “leading the resistance against Donald Trump in NYC.”
“Before she had access to any evidence, James declared conclusively that Trump ‘engaged in a pattern and practice of money laundering’ and ‘can be indicted for criminal offenses,’” Honig continued. “The day after she won office, still having seen no actual evidence, the new AG exulted, ‘We’re going to definitely sue him. We’re going to be a real pain in the ass. He’s going to know my name personally.’ For what? Who knows. Just something.”
Charges brought against Trump in the real estate case lacked any real substance, which is why the appellate court is likely reduce the financial penalty against the president by a substantial amount. And, of course, the president’s legal team is going to have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that James carried out her actions with criminal intent.
In less good news, Honig notes that James will have a favorable jury in New York state, which is still locked in the clutches of the Democratic Party.
“Earlier this month, the Democratic-majority state legislature quietly inserted a provision into the state budget that would establish a $10 million fund for state employees targeted with frivolous prosecution by the federal government. Insiders close to the budget-making process told the NY Post the fund was explicitly established in response to James’s ordeal,” TPN reported.
“However, by tapping public funds, James may be exposing her official staff to subpoenas and depositions, threatening to tear open the inner workings of her office for the whole world to see,” the article concluded.
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