New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office and her attorney, after news broke about Department of Justice investigations centering around her prosecutions against President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association, decried the “weaponization of the justice system,” a complaint that Trump and his supporters have often levied against James and others in cases brought against him.
Any investigation into James over her fraud case against Trump, in which a judge sided with her claims that the then-former president had inflated his wealth for financial gain, is a “blatant” example of the administration staging retribution for actions taken against him, Abbe Lowell, her attorney, commented, reports The New York Times.
“[It is] the most blatant and desperate example of this administration carrying out the president’s political retribution campaign,” Lowell said. “Weaponizing the Department of Justice to try to punish an elected official for doing her job is an attack on the rule of law and a dangerous escalation by this administration.”
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