Trumps file legal response accusing New York AG Letitia James of having a vendetta against the former First Family and breaking state laws by campaigning on the promise to take them down without a shred of evidence
February 3, 2022 | New York
The Trump family have accused New York Attorney General Letitia James of breaking state laws for a politically motivated ‘fishing expedition’, in a fiery court filing Tuesday.
The legal filing, lodged by Donald Trump‘s lawyers in New York, claims James was hell-bent on prosecuting the Trumps even before she got into office or saw any evidence against them, and has used her AG investigation into the family firms to raise money for her political campaigns.
The lawyers say she breached the New York constitution by colluding with the state’s former District Attorney Cyrus Vance to run parallel criminal and civil cases, which they claim precludes the chance for a fair trial in either. The Trump family also claims James broke Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules which ban campaigning on the promise of a criminal investigation. The documents are the latest in a bitter legal battle between the leader of the Republican Party and the outspoken and ambitious Democrat AG…(Excerpts from Daily Mail)
