In quite a turn in the tables of fate for New York Attorney General Letitia James, she is now on the backfoot thanks to mortgage-related prosecution, with the Department of Justice having secured a grand jury indictment against her on two charges related to alleged mortgage fraud she committed in claiming a home in Virginia as her primary residence.
Further, as AG James freaks out over the charges, huffing and puffing over the fact that she is facing justice for what appears to be a crime that was clearly committed by her, the Trump Administration is rubbing it in, with Vice President JD Vance appearing on ABC’s “This Week” with host George Stephanopoulos and skewering James.
That segment began with Stephanopoulos rolling footage of various political figures discussing the matter. He, for example, said, “And the president’s hand-picked prosecutor indicts New York Attorney General Letitia James over the objections of previous prosecutors” and then rolled the clip of Letitia James freaking out.
Doing so, she said, “This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.” She further added, in that ridiculous meltdown, “These charges are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution.”
Vance was then, somewhat later in the show, asked about all of that, with Stephanopoulos pressing him on the claim that the Trump Administration is engaged in a “double standard” of targeting Letitia James while ignoring that some members of it have, allegedly, done the same thing. VP Vance brushed aside that claim and then dug into sounding off on James.
Beginning, he noted that it was a far-left area of the country that thought James was worthy of being indicted for the mortgage fraud claims, saying, “What does the law say? Letitia James was indicted in a left-leaning part of our country, a part that voted very heavily against Donald J. Trump, for the crime of mortgage fraud. When I read the indictment, when I read the facts in the case, I see a person who committed mortgage fraud.”
Continuing, he noted that it will be a judge and jury determining if she gets her 30 years in jail and massive fines or if she gets off, not the Trump Administration, saying, “Now, of course, the jury is going to decide whether she ultimately committed a crime. We don’t try her. The administration doesn’t try her. A judge tries the case, and a jury decides whether she’s ultimately guilty. That is what is going to determine whether she goes to prison. I think we let the facts drive this.”
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Concluding, he noted that the DOJ is targeting someone who appears to have broken the law, saying, “And, George, that’s what we’ve tried to do in the administration’s Department of Justice. We’ve asked ourselves, has a person violated the law. And if that person has violated the law, then we decide to prosecute them. That’s what the Department of Justice should do. It didn’t do that under Joe Biden’s administration. It does under Donald Trump’s.”
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