‘Madness’: The Wall Street Journal Rips Donald Trump and Letitia James Over ‘Mutual Assured Legal Destruction’
The Wall Street Journal ripped both President Donald Trump and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) over their legal persecution of each other in an editorial titled, “Donald Trump and Letitia James, Lawfare Pals.”
After summing up the civil fraud case James brought against Trump and the criminal one Trump’s Department of Justice is bringing against James now, the Journal’s editorial board argued that “None of this, on either side, is healthy for the republic,” continuing:
Ms. James accused Mr. Trump of civil fraud, while giving no evidence that his sophisticated lenders suffered any losses. Nevertheless, the trial judge imposed a financial penalty of roughly half a billion dollars. When that was invalidated in August, Ms. James promised to appeal to the state’s highest court “to protect the rights and interests of New Yorkers.”
This week’s indictment of Ms. James gives no indication that anyone lost money. Federal housing regulator Bill Pulte seems to believe his job is to dig through filing cabinets for dirt on Mr. Trump’s enemies, even as news reports suggest flyspecking mortgages to this degree could fill America’s jails in about five minutes, including with Republicans. To pick one, the outfit ProPublica claims Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer “entered into two primary-residence mortgages in quick succession.”
“Worried about Mr. Trump’s promises of retribution, President Biden issued blanket pardons on his way out the door. After taking his revenge, will Mr. Trump have to do the same on Jan. 20, 2029? This is madness,” concluded the influential center-right newspaper. “The better path for the country is for both parties to conclude that the lawfare of recent years has been a historic mistake, and that nobody benefits from becoming a banana republic. Mutual assured legal destruction is no way to run a great nation.”
Notably, Trump is currently suing the Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, over a story the Journal published about a lewd birthday card Trump allegedly addressed to the late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
