Douglas Golden writes for the Western Journal about a new legal challenge for one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal foes.
When New York Attorney General Letitia James managed to secure a guilty verdict against then-candidate Donald Trump in February of 2024 for allegedly inflating the value of the Trump Organization to secure better terms for loans, she wanted to let everyone know that — despite the fact it was a flimsy case against one of her personal enemies brought in a jurisdiction that would hold the Republican frontrunner guilty for killing Jimmy Hoffa and Julius Caesar — she wasn’t targeting him.
“I want to be clear: White collar financial crime is not a victimless crime,” James said in a statement after the verdict.
“When the powerful break the law and take more than their fair share, there are fewer resources available for working people, small businesses, and families, and everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank about how much money they have in order to get a mortgage to buy a home … and if they did, the government would throw the book at them.”
“The scale of Donald Trump’s fraud is staggering, and so is his ego,” she added.
You know the iron-clad rule of political projection, especially on the left: Anything they accuse you of, they’re leaning into.
The politician who whines about the bigotry of the opposition is always the first to call the only Jewish nation in the world an “apartheid state.” The congressperson who brays about fascism is invariably going to attack constitutional rights like there’s no tomorrow.
And, if allegations are accurate, the woman who went after a presidential candidate of the opposing party on flimsy charges of real-estate fraud engaged in some very real property fraud of her own — in fact, of almost the same variety she accused Donald Trump of perpetrating.
