Donald Trump’s effort to prosecute his political enemies has become even harder to defend.

Legal experts have identified yet another chink in the armor of the already-fraught charges against New York Attorney General and longtime Trump foe Letitia James. James stands accused of committing mortgage fraud in a case brought by attack-dog Lindsey Halligan—Trump’s handpicked top prosecutor in Eastern Virginia.

Halligan, Trump’s personal attorney with no prior prosecutorial experience, alleges that James falsely claimed a second home in Norfolk, Virginia, as her primary residence to secure better loan terms, and then violated her mortgage by renting it out.

But real-estate and legal scholars told Politico on Wednesday that Halligan’s case has a fatal flaw: the mortgage contract doesn’t actual

See Full Page