The Sad Trombone Blows for Leticia James

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It’s hard to express how much cruel delight I take in the current dilemma of porcine New York Attorney General Letitia James. You see, the malignant Democrat, who ran specifically on the electoral promise that she was going to find something to sue or convict Donald Trump over, just got herself caught up in a little jam. Actually, it’s a big jam. And it’s hilarious.

Now, I was against the new rule about conducting fishing expeditions on your political enemies with an eye towards finding some criminal act they may have committed or some quasi-criminal act that could be twisted into wrongdoing in front of a solicitous court with a politically unfriendly jury pool. That’s exactly what she did to Donald Trump in New York. Actually, she couldn’t get anything on Trump himself, so she went after his companies under some ridiculous loan fraud theory where no one was ripped off, and everybody was happy with the transactions. She found a judge who would play along and eagerly wreak vengeance on Donald Trump, the law and justice be damned. It resulted in a judgment of hundreds of millions of dollars that’s almost certain to be flushed down the toilet on appeal like exactly what it is. It cost Trump plenty of time, money, and embarrassment – and under the old rules those were improper purposes. But the old rules were changed.

James accomplished her mission, and she was very proud of herself. She thought this was great. She took the power of her office and shamelessly abused it to punish a political opponent. She went looking for something, anything, that she could twist into a judicial proceeding to hurt him, and she managed to do it. Congratulations, Leticia James.

You just played yourself.

It is kind of hilarious. She went after Donald Trump for loan fraud, and, in hindsight, that makes sense because she’s an expert on loan fraud. Apparently, she has had plenty of practice. It turns out that she has been criminally referred to the Trump Justice Department for several loan fraud crimes, including allegedly lying about the number of bedrooms to get a better mortgage rate and claiming out-of-state property as her place of residence to get a better deal. It’s all there on paper. If true, she does not have to be framed or some new offense invented to drag her into court, unlike Donald Trump. If proven in court, this will be a run-of-the-mill, perfectly normal and routine mortgage fraud.

Bizarrely, she’s allegedly been doing this for a couple of decades. Although the statute of limitations has run, in the past, she allegedly attempted to take out mortgages by claiming to be married to her father. That’s totally normal and not at all yucky. I’m not sure what it is with these weird Democrat politicians claiming to be married to close relatives, but the Ilhan Omarization of America has got to stop. It’s just tacky.

So, now the Trump’s Justice Department has Leticia James in its sights, and I couldn’t be happier. Again, I thought that going and looking for bad acts by political opponents in order to use the judicial system against them was a bad idea. I strongly opposed that, including in these very electronic pages. I did not want the old rule, where you don’t do that, to be changed in favor of the new rule, where you do that. But you know what? Leticia James and her friends had other ideas. They thought doing this to their political opponents was a great idea and that this new rule was wonderful. Except they forgot something. It’s a very important thing, and they never considered it.

They forgot that when they made it the rule, it became the rule. And that if the GOP took power, it could use that new rule.

I wouldn’t put it past Dems just being really stupid for never considering that someday they would be out of power and would face Republicans who didn’t hesitate to use their power. After all, it was used against them. No one should be surprised that the Republicans are now using all the tools in their toolbox to fight their enemies. The day of the gentlemanly GOP loser has passed into history. Now, our enemies are going to pay.

Just ask Harvard, which was likely thrilled in 1983 (and up until last week) to have SCOTUS strip a Christian university of its tax-exempt status because of its refusal to abide by federal civil rights laws. Harvard is considerably less thrilled now that it finds itself about to be stripped of its tax-exempt status because of its refusal to abide by federal civil rights laws. Maybe it’s just arrogance on their part, the idea that they were above the law. They thought the law was their own special weapon against their enemies, and now that they’re finding their enemy is using it as a suppository.

Pretty soon, we’re going to see an indictment of Leticia James, and I am going to laugh and laugh and laugh. A couple of points about the indictment: Back when I did law all the time, I didn’t do criminal law, so I reached out to some of my federal criminal law buddies for their insights. The first thing is that it’s not just going to be mortgage fraud that she gets hit with. It’s going to be wire fraud, maybe mail fraud, and some other similar federal law violations. These are serious crimes, and they can lead to jail time.

The New York attorney general is also not going to get home court advantage. The interesting thing about federal law is you can prosecute in any state where the crime was committed, and here it looks like New York and Virginia are both in the running. If I were the DOJ, I would go with the Eastern District of Virginia. That’s where an offending house is located, and while the jury pool will be a bunch of liberals, it won’t be New York liberals. As we learned with the J6 defendants, the government should always seek the most advantageous venue whenever prosecuting political opponents.

Oh, and when she gets arrested, it’s important that her lawyer not be contacted so she can surrender with dignity and be processed expeditiously. Nah. She gets the Roger Stone treatment. We need to send a SWAT team in at about 2:30 AM to knock down her door. It’s probably not tactically necessary, but it’s important to honor the new rules about how to treat political opponents. Bonus points for alerting Fox News to be on the scene to film it happening.

Say, these new rules are fun!

It will also be fun to watch the reaction of her supporters. Democrats always complain that white-collar criminals skate while their constituents who commit violent crimes get slammed. It’s sure going to be hilarious when they have to defend this particular white-collar crime, but we already know how they’re going to do it. They will use the “Maryland Man” paradigm they have perfected with that scumbag who’s sitting in an El Salvador prison. They will pretend she’s an innocent victim and literally ignore every single bit of evidence against her. They just won’t mention any of it, just like they don’t mention Maryland Man’s wife-beating allegations (made under perjury by his wife), the facts about how he was arrested as part of a gang (his street name is “Chele”), and the due process he received during at least two proceedings where he was adjudicated a gang member.

But people are not buying it about “Chele,” and it’s not going to work for Leticia James either. The refusal to provide full and honest facts is a 20th-century flex that doesn’t work in a 21st-century media environment. There are no longer just three networks and two big newspapers that can conspire to keep the truth from the people. We’re going get the facts, even though they could once hide them. They have not internalized that reality yet. The leftist establishment is, of necessity, going to choose Leticia James as the hill to die on, which is just fine – it doesn’t matter where the leftist establishment dies as long as it dies.