Though Donald Trump saw a major victory on Monday when a New York appellate court reduced his nearly half-billion-dollar appeals bond, political and legal experts made clear that Attorney General Letitia James is the real winner in the civil fraud case.
“There’s a certain poetic justice to a Black woman exposing a criminal degenerate former president as being a complete fraud,” political strategist Reecie Colbert said of James, who made history as New York’s first Black female attorney general. “She really fearlessly went after Donald Trump, and she did it methodically, and she did it in a way that made her case unimpeachable. That’s why she got this massive victory.”
Though Trump has an additional 10 days to pay $175 million, James made clear it holds no consequence to her historic win against a former U.S. president.
“Donald Trump is still facing accountability for his staggering fraud,” the Howard Law School graduate said in a statement issued Monday after Trump’s $454 million appeals bond was narrowed on the day he was due to pay it. “The $464 million judgment – plus interest – against Donald Trump and the other defendants still stands.”
For her part, Letitia James has emerged as a powerful political figure. As former New York assemblyman and CEO of the Kairos Democracy Project Michael A. Blake points out, James is “the most recognizable attorney general in America.”
“We can’t ignore the significance of a Black person, and more specifically a Black woman, accomplishing this success against a man who has for decades gone after Black people,” Blake told theGrio.
The 65-year-old attorney general, who made history in her successful prosecution of a former president, did what few prosecutors could do in decades past.
“There was a history of knowledge within the New York City and New York State community of these practices, and no one ever had enough courage to step up and actually bring about…
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