Former President Donald Trump had some choice words for New York Attorney General Letitia James as he left a Manhattan courtroom last week, ripping her for keeping him “stuck” in the city and off the campaign trail.
In brief remarks to reporters, Trump also accused James of colluding with Joe Biden’s Justice Department, as he said he would rather be in key early primary states addressing voters.
“I’m here, stuck here, and I can’t campaign. I’d rather be right now in Iowa. I’d rather be in New Hampshire or South Carolina or Ohio or a lot of other places. But I’m stuck here because I have a corrupt attorney general that communicates with the DOJ in Washington to keep me nice and busy, because I’m leading Biden in the polls by a lot,” Trump said, according to Fox News.
“This is election interference. They made up a fake case, these fraudulent people. And the judge already knows what he’s going to do. He’s a Democrat judge. In all fairness to him, he has no choice,” Trump said. “I know this city better than anybody who knows this city.
“Nobody knows it like I do. He’s a Democrat judge out of the clubhouses, he’s controlled, and it’s a shame. What’s going on here is a shame. Our whole system is corrupt. This is corrupt, Atlanta is corrupt, and what’s coming out of D.C. is corrupt,” Trump added.
The former president and current leading 2024 GOP contender ripped James for seeking “publicity” by targeting him during a short-lived 2021 bid for New York governor, which she ended after two months, choosing instead to run for reelection to attorney general.
In fact, during her initial AG run, she was caught on video pledging to target Trump and his businesses, specifically while he was still president.
Eric Trump shared the video of James promising to take down Trump on his Instagram page.
“This is not the United States Legal System – this is third-world prosecutorial misconduct. Promising to target a political opponent and their family before even entering office – it’s hard to believe this is America. Letitia James may go down as the most politically corrupt Attorney General in New York history,” he said in the caption of the video.
“Stay Tuned… we have sued her for her unethical behavior and a judge will see every one of these videos, her viciousness, and the pure malice of her actions and statements. More to come: Tomorrow may just be a video of James ad-libbing the song “I will survive” while interjecting hate speech about Donald Trump…. very common for the top law enforcement official in the State of New York,” the former president’s son said.
“This garbage erodes Americans’ confidence in the legal system and it will stop. Thank you to everyone who has sent videos of her – we seem to get new ones almost every day. #KeepThemComing,” he added.
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Trump also criticized the judge overseeing his case, Arthur Engoron, especially after he claimed that Trump’s signature Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida is only worth around $18 million.
“The smallest house in Palm Beach is probably worth $50 million. And this is the biggest, the best anywhere in the country. There’s nothing like it,” Trump said. “And by the way, my financial documents are valued much less than my actual value, which nobody even knows. But the financial documents that I gave to the bank are much less than my actual net worth.”
“They can’t be fraudulent because I gave them lower numbers. I’m probably one of the only people ever to seek a loan — I didn’t even need the loan, because you see the kind of cash I have. I didn’t even need loans,” he added.
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