Fox News contributor and civil rights attorney Leo Terrell blasted New York Attorney General Letitia James ahead of former President Donald Trump’s deadline to pay his civil fraud penalty, which was more than halved on appeal.
Terrell, during an appearance on Fox News with host Mark Levin, noted that James’ prosecution of Trump was entirely politically motivated because she admitted as much in 2018 campaign videos in which she promised to go after the then-president in court.
“Bankrupt him under the phony law and phony prosecutor. I don’t know, when I was a young attorney if you were running for office to be the attorney general of the state and you said you’re going to target Donald Trump, ‘I’m going to get Donald Trump,’ … it would be brought to the bar,” the host began. The bar would’ve brought it up itself, they would have condemned it, and they would have sanctioned that attorney.
“You are not allowed to run for office, much less a prosecutorial office, and to make claims like that under any rules of ethical conduct in any state that I am aware of. It is so corrupt. Is the bar filled with Democrats who have