Letitia James Is Caught in a War of Her Own Making

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It’s a fact, beyond reasonable dispute, that Letitia James weaponized her official power as New York’s attorney general to pursue Donald Trump for political purposes. It’s equally clear that the Trump administration is now targeting James for payback. The downward spiral of prosecutorial retribution has begun, and there will be no winners.

James started it when she ran for New York AG and won in 2018 primarily on an explicit platform of Vote for me...