NY AG James admits partisan bias, twice claims her 'singular focus' is on electing VP Harris over Trump

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 July 30, 2024

It has been asserted with ample supportive evidence that Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James has pursued a personal vendetta based on partisan bias against former President Donald Trump, including in her successful civil fraud judgment against him earlier this year for nearly half a billion dollars.

James appeared to confirm her anti-Trump obsession during an MSNBC appearance on Saturday during which she admitted that her "singular focus" was defeating Trump politically in November by supporting the election of Vice President Kamala Harris, Newsweek reported.

Just a few days earlier on the same network, the New York attorney general had said essentially the same thing -- that her "singular focus" was on getting Harris elected over Trump, whom she has dogged and tried to financially ruin with multiple lawsuits and investigations over the years.

James says her "singular focus" is on electing Harris

On Saturday, AG James appeared on MSNBC's "The Weekend" with co-hosts Michael Steele and Symone Sanders-Townsend, during which she devoted the overwhelming majority of her time to viciously attacking and smearing former President Trump with outright lies, misleading half-truths, and dubious statements of fact devoid of critical context.

"All Democratic attorneys general have endorsed Kamala Harris for president of these United States," James said at one point about the vice president who is also a former senator, attorney general, and district attorney from California.

"I think an attorney general is in the best position to know what a former attorney general is capable of," she continued. "In fact, she's more qualified than the last four presidents."

"It is my singular focus to have her elected as president," James admitted. "That's organizing, mobilizing, and educating individuals about all that Donald Trump did to this country to divide us based on artificial constructs such as race, class, and gender."

Trump represents an "existential threat" to everything, James says

Earlier in the week, according to the New York Post, AG James appeared on MSNBC with host Joy Reid and said much the same thing in terms of her partisan attacks on the former president and "singular focus" on electing the current vice president to the White House.

"I’m focused at this point in time on securing the nomination for Vice President Harris, and then ultimately getting her elected," James said, then added, "That is my singular focus at this point in time, and continuing to stand up for the rule of law and representing the citizens of the great state of New York, as we do each and every day."

She went on to level several damning accusations against Trump and asserted, "There’s so much at stake, it’s really critically important that individuals understand that he represents an existential threat to all that we believe in," which is why, James believes, "we must stand together and elect Vice President Harris."

And, just a few days prior to that, James announced in a statement that she was leading a coalition of black state attorneys general in a collective endorsement of the Democratic vice president over the Republican former president in November's election.

James ran for office, has followed through on campaign promises to prosecute Trump

Newsweek observed that AG James, who was elected in 2019 in part on a vow to "get Trump," has since followed through on that campaign promise with multiple lawsuits and allegations of wrongdoing against the former president, including a nearly half-billion dollar judgment in a hyper-partisan civil fraud case earlier this year over accusations that Trump's business inflated the claimed values of certain assets to obtain better terms on insurance and loans.

Trump, who vehemently disputed those allegations, has long accused James of engaging in a relentless politically motivated "witch hunt" against him and is currently appealing that civil fraud judgment.

The Post noted that James has denied waging a personal vendetta against Trump, but that claim doesn't hold up in light of her exceptionally harsh and unceasing criticisms and legal maneuverings against him.

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