She continued, “This is not the time to be fearful, New York, but faithful and steadfast, knowing that I as the Attorney General along with my entire team, we are guardians of the law. And we are prepared, my friends, to fight back. Thank you.”
James campaigned on prosecuting and “convicting” former President Donald Trump and ultimately did so with a highly controversial civil fraud case. The former president was initially fined $100 million after a Democrat judge accused him of inflating the price of his Mar-a-Lago state, even though loans on the property were paid back in full, with interest.
The frivolous case has been widely condemned by legal and real estate experts and is expected to be tossed out on appeal.
Fox News legal analyst referred to James’ unhinged press conference as one of the “most distasteful” speeches ever delivered by an elected official in response to an electoral defeat. “And Letitia James has been this the entire time. She has done everything in her power to destroy Donald Trump, she failed. Do you know how I know? Because Donald Trump won,” she said.