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James is yet another fat bitch abusing her powers, she should be thrown out of office for her calumny.
When I was young, the New York Attorney General’s office had a reputation for integrity. But somewhere along the line, the office went completely off the rails. Eliot Spitzer was elected AG in 1998, and spent his two terms in frightening misuse of the office to further his naked political ambitions, mainly through shaking down financial institutions on the thinnest of pretexts. After eight years improperly using this tactic to keep his name in the headlines, he was then elected Governor; whereupon his successor — Andrew Cuomo — followed the same playbook for one term, and with the same result of becoming Governor. The next guy, Eric Schneiderman, was, if this is even possible, the worst of the three in the category of politicized prosecutions and shakedowns. Mercifully, Schneiderman was forced from office in a sex scandal before he could move up to the governorship.
In the 2018 election, we got a woman named Letitia James. By this time, all pretense that the Attorney General ought to be an impartial law enforcement officer had been long forgotten. James not only made no secret, but actually bragged and campaigned on her intention to misuse the powers of the office to go after political enemies, most particularly Donald Trump, who was President at the time. And, she promised, she would not just sue Trump in his capacity as President for allegedly exceeding his constitutional powers, but she would go after him personally in any way she could, to try to destroy him. The following quote is a summary from the Buffalo News on October 30, 2018, in the run-up to that election:
Democrat Letitia James promises much more than simply opposing President Trump should she win her Nov. 6 election for New York attorney general against Republican Keith Wofford. Indeed, she will continue current Attorney General Barbara Underwood’s litigation against Trump policies on immigration, civil rights, the environment and minorities. But she promises even more scrutiny of the president’s personal and corporate finances, his real estate holdings, whether he has dodged taxes, and more.
That was just under four years ago. In the intervening years, there have been public indications from time to time that some kind of big investigation was going on (for example, court filings involving Trump’s accounting firm Mazars), but never any charges. Meanwhile, there was a companion criminal investigation of Trump going on in the Manhattan DA’s office. (In New York, the AG has only certain limited criminal jurisdiction, and most criminal jurisdiction rests in the county DAs.). The Manhattan DA conducting that investigation, Cyrus Vance, Jr., retired at the end of 2021, and a new guy, Alvin Bragg, took over at the start of this year. Bragg promptly held a review of his office’s Trump criminal investigation, and decided to walk away from it. I covered that subject in a March 11 post here.
But Letitia James is running for re-election in November, less than two months away. She needs to get her name in the news. Does she have anything at all to show for her four years of effort pursuing Trump?
This morning James held a big press conference to announce the filing of a 214 page Complaint against Trump. A full copy of the Complaint can be found at this link (via NBC News).
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com...w-for-new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james
James is yet another fat bitch abusing her powers, she should be thrown out of office for her calumny.
When I was young, the New York Attorney General’s office had a reputation for integrity. But somewhere along the line, the office went completely off the rails. Eliot Spitzer was elected AG in 1998, and spent his two terms in frightening misuse of the office to further his naked political ambitions, mainly through shaking down financial institutions on the thinnest of pretexts. After eight years improperly using this tactic to keep his name in the headlines, he was then elected Governor; whereupon his successor — Andrew Cuomo — followed the same playbook for one term, and with the same result of becoming Governor. The next guy, Eric Schneiderman, was, if this is even possible, the worst of the three in the category of politicized prosecutions and shakedowns. Mercifully, Schneiderman was forced from office in a sex scandal before he could move up to the governorship.
In the 2018 election, we got a woman named Letitia James. By this time, all pretense that the Attorney General ought to be an impartial law enforcement officer had been long forgotten. James not only made no secret, but actually bragged and campaigned on her intention to misuse the powers of the office to go after political enemies, most particularly Donald Trump, who was President at the time. And, she promised, she would not just sue Trump in his capacity as President for allegedly exceeding his constitutional powers, but she would go after him personally in any way she could, to try to destroy him. The following quote is a summary from the Buffalo News on October 30, 2018, in the run-up to that election:
Democrat Letitia James promises much more than simply opposing President Trump should she win her Nov. 6 election for New York attorney general against Republican Keith Wofford. Indeed, she will continue current Attorney General Barbara Underwood’s litigation against Trump policies on immigration, civil rights, the environment and minorities. But she promises even more scrutiny of the president’s personal and corporate finances, his real estate holdings, whether he has dodged taxes, and more.
That was just under four years ago. In the intervening years, there have been public indications from time to time that some kind of big investigation was going on (for example, court filings involving Trump’s accounting firm Mazars), but never any charges. Meanwhile, there was a companion criminal investigation of Trump going on in the Manhattan DA’s office. (In New York, the AG has only certain limited criminal jurisdiction, and most criminal jurisdiction rests in the county DAs.). The Manhattan DA conducting that investigation, Cyrus Vance, Jr., retired at the end of 2021, and a new guy, Alvin Bragg, took over at the start of this year. Bragg promptly held a review of his office’s Trump criminal investigation, and decided to walk away from it. I covered that subject in a March 11 post here.
But Letitia James is running for re-election in November, less than two months away. She needs to get her name in the news. Does she have anything at all to show for her four years of effort pursuing Trump?
This morning James held a big press conference to announce the filing of a 214 page Complaint against Trump. A full copy of the Complaint can be found at this link (via NBC News).
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com...w-for-new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james
