The DOJ's investigation into N.Y. AG Letitia James is almost too on the nose
Opinion by Anthony Coley • 6h
Donald Trump knows how to keep his word when he wants to. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump promised retribution and retaliation against his political opponents. He specifically called out New York Attorney General Letitia James, the trailblazing prosecutor who beat Trump and the Trump organization in court; a judge found that Trump and the organization improperly inflated assets in financial documents to get favorable loan terms. (Trump is appealing the civil penalty).
In November 2023, as the trial was ongoing, Trump made a social media post characterizing James’s prosecution against him as a “ridiculous Political Witch Hunt against me” and wrote, “She should be prosecuted!” At a campaign rally in January 2024, he said the judge and James “should be arrested and punished accordingly.”
He appears to be actively making good on those vows to pay back the people he says wrong him even though the facts and evidence don’t appear to justify it.
NBC News reported Friday that Attorney General Pam Bondi has made MAGA activist Ed Martin a “special attorney” to probe mortgage fraud allegations against James made by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William J. Pulte, a Trump nominee who was sworn in in March. At the same time, The New York Times reported Friday that the office of John Sarcone III, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, sent James’s office two subpoenas last week that seek to discover if she violated the rights of Trump and his businesses, as well as the rights of the National Rifle Association. James’s office successfully won a corruption case against the N.R.A. the week after she won the fraud case against Trump and the Trump organization. Sarcone’s office didn’t respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.
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