Leo Terrell, a civil rights attorney and contributor to Fox News, strongly criticized New York Attorney General Letitia James prior to the deadline for former President Donald Trump to pay his reduced civil fraud penalty. Terrell, speaking on Fox News alongside host Mark Levin, pointed out that James’ pursuit of Trump was clearly driven by political motives, as evidenced by her own statements in campaign videos from 2018 where she vowed to take legal action against the then-president.
“Bankrupt him under the phony law and phony prosecutor. I don’t know, when I was a young attorney if you were running for office to be the attorney general of the state and you said you’re going to target Donald Trump, ‘I’m going to get Donald Trump,’ … it would be brought to the bar,” the host began. The bar would’ve brought it up itself, they would have condemned it, and they would have sanctioned that attorney.
“You are not allowed to run for office, much less a prosecutorial office, and to make claims like that under any rules of ethical conduct in any state that I am aware of. It is so corrupt. Is the bar filled with Democrats who have not said or done anything? What about the legal profession now? What you make of that?” Levin asked.
“Look, let me be clear, there is no legal profession in New York. What you just articulated, I will be as clear as possible. Letitia James is a racist. She targeted Trump. I submit to the following evidence — the videotape of her claiming that if she gets into office, she will go after Trump,” Terrell said.
“And then she colludes with a left-wing progressive judge who doesn’t know anything about real estate, and again, they are trying to prevent Trump from running for office. They are trying to destroy his livelihood. They are trying to take everything he built up and take it away,” Terrell continued.
“To try to discourage him from running for office, I find the conduct of the New York bar offensive. It is disgusting. What should happen is that the case should be appealed, and it will be appealed, and it should be reversed because that was not justice. It is political warfare,” he said.
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