Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at New York State Attorney General Letitia James (D), repeatedly calling her a “disaster” over her lawsuit against the former president and his three older children for financial fraud.
During an interview on WABC 770 AM’s “Cats at Night Show” with host John Catsimatidis, accused James of targeting him in order to raise her political profile and complained that there are “murderers walking down the street” while James focuses on him, The Hill reports.
“You look at this Letitia James. She’s a disaster,” Trump ranted. “She spends years going after me … She said I maybe misrepresented to banks, which frankly, I didn’t … She goes after me on … banks that are fully paid. Totally satisfied. Happy. They got their money back … In the meantime, we have murderers walking down the street.”
“She’s a horror show. She doesn’t care about violent crime. She doesn’t care about anything except trying to use Trump’s name to get elected,” he claimed. “And she’s a disaster and everybody knows it.”
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Trump’s attack on James come a week after the Attorney General announced that her office had filed a lawsuit against him and his three children, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr., alleging that all four family members committed business fraud.
The lawsuit is a culmination of a three-year investigation by James and her office into whether the the Trump Organization, misled investors and tax authorities by inflating property values to get investments, subsequently deflating them to receive tax and loan benefits.
The lawsuit seeks to make the Trump family pay $250 million in penalties, and prohibit them from holding seats in any New York-based corporation, according to The Hill.
