In an article by Ruth Marcus at the New Yorker, Marcus ignores Letitia James’s potential criminal offenses and goes right to the revenge issue. She wants us to live with whatever they do to us or our leadership and keep quiet about it.
The New York Attorney General Letitia is facing criminal charges.
Marcus’s popular viewpoint among Democrats is that even if James “misused her office to go after Trump, the acceptable reaction is not to repeat that offense. Trump may be a self described counter puncher, but payback has no place in the principles of Federal Prosecution, the bible that governs how federal prosecutors should conduct themselves.
“And so the question raised by the indictment of James is: would any other federal prosecutor have brought this case against any other defendant? The indictment is, like the Comey charges, notably lacking in detail – but the answer seems to be a resounding no.”
If it was only a matter of revenge, then she would have a point. That is what Letitia James did to Donald Trump. However, it appears she committed bank fraud and made false statements to a financial institution. They have a lot of evidence, none of which Donald Trump dug up, and a grand jury agreed with the prosecution. If no other federal prosecutor would prosecute it, then something is wrong in the DoJ.
Cynical Publius wrote on X that no one is above the law, you filthy fascistic propagandistic lawfare goon.
John Hawkins writes: Sounds nice to say, but if the punishment for misusing her office is zero and she even has crimes she may have committed ignored, why wouldn’t she continue to do it?
[It is also the crime she falsely charged Trump with. The irony alone mandates prosecution.]
Kurt Schlichter thanked her for her input, but declined her offer to let us suffer abuse without returning the favor.
Thanks for the input, but we decline your offer to allow us to suffer abuse without returning it.
We warned you. You didn’t listen. Now you’re going to pay. https://t.co/SpB8zih0Zd
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 15, 2025
Well gosh! She’s just not very nice at all!
I can bring ‘trumped’ up charges and attempt to destroy you…but my blatant crimes of the same ‘trumped’ up ilk are A OK. The play book of Alinsky…parroted by the ‘legacy’…The ‘left’ is insufferable and insidious…they are not stupid, their adherents are, and indoctrinated to boot…
People like Ruth Marcus and James see no absolutes like right and wrong. They live in a subjective world. Everything is gray! The ends justify the means. They exhibit a personality disorder in which they confuse who they are with an imagined super being that society needs in order to perform properly, and therefore they can do no wrong.
And we all know how Marcus would have responded if the situation and parties involved were reversed. It is called situational ethics, and is one of the few instances where ‘ethics’ and Democrats can be used in the same sentence.
Marcus does not believe in fair play. They deliberately distort the situation. There were no valid charges against Trump. The charges against James are solid, due to false statements in writing, which benefited her financially. I call their argument an equivalence argument, in which they attempt to claim the person on their side did the same thing Trump did. It… Read more »
Well said! Right to the heart of the matter: Trump did nothing wrong and the left trumped up a charge; James committed a crime and the left gives her a pass. James and their leading Democrat leaders, see themselves as elitists, and what they do is for the “good of the people” say they can commit no crimes.