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Less than a day after an indictment against Attorney General Letitia James ordered by the president, her case has widened a fault line through the race for mayor — with Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo both claiming the other is not equipped to stand up to President Donald Trump as he sets aim at New York.

James was indicted by a grand jury in Virginia Thursday for alleged bank fraud, after President Donald Trump publicly ordered her prosecution, calling her “ guilty as hell ” and pushing out a prosecutor who declined to bring the charges.

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