Liberal Legal Expert Turns On Letitia In Brutal Takedown: ‘James Started This Retributive Mess’Trending Politics News
By Mark Steffen
May 23, 2025
Letitia James, the embattled New York state attorney general at the center of a Justice Department prosecution,
has no one to blame but herself, a liberal legal expert wrote in a recent op-ed.
Elie Honig, a former prosecutor and contributor at CNN, blamed James, a Democrat, for instigating the “retributive mess” of political prosecutions that has culminated in charges alleging she lied on federal forms to obtain favorable mortgages for several properties.
James previously prosecuted President Donald Trump for mortgage fraud and secured a $500 million state judgment, which is currently sitting in appeals court.
“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 writes in 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.”
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.”
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