New York Attorney General Letitia James is the latest political opponent of President Donald Trump facing charges from the Department of Justice.
The president had personally pushed for the prosecution of James, who led a successful civil fraud case against Trump in New York. Trump and his sons were slapped with hundreds of millions of dollars in fines when a judge found that they had artificially inflated Trump’s net worth in business negotiations. Those steep damages have since been reduced on appeal, but the president has appeared determined to punish James for winning the case.
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