She set the trap. Now she’s caught in it.
Fox News legal analysts Gregg Jarrett and Jonathan Turley explained Thursday how New York Attorney General Letitia James may have incriminated herself under the very legal principles she once used against others.
A federal grand jury in Virginia handed down charges against James after prosecutors led by Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan brought the case forward.
Appearing on Hannity, Jarrett said James “effectively trapped herself in her own legal standards,” following reports that she falsely listed her Virginia property as her primary residence to qualify for better mortgage rates while in office.
“It is not a defense if the charges are justified, as I think they may be. She’ll also claim, of course, ‘Oh, it’s a big misunderstanding, paperwork snafu, somebody else is to blame.’ But under her own stated standard in the Trump case, she declared that is never an excuse. So she’s hoisted on her own petard, as Shakespeare would say in Hamlet,” Jarrett said.
Jarrett added that the case against James “rests squarely on the paperwork she personally executed.”
“It’s a pretty serious case against her, Sean. You cannot claim an occupied residence, get a lower mortgage rate, and then rent it out. You’re cheating the lender by lying, and James actually incriminated herself. Both her mortgage and her insurance documents said she occupied it, but on an IRS records form she admitted it was purely a rental with zero personal occupancy,” Jarrett said.
He added that James is now facing the same standards she used to prosecute others.
“Well, it can’t be both. That’s illegal. Predictably, today she just whined that the law is being weaponized against her. Spare me the moral outrage. It was phony. She was the one who campaigned on the promise to get Trump, then conjured up that ludicrous case only to get slapped down by the appellate court in an epic embarrassment,” Jarrett said. “I think he or she’s going to do exactly what James Comey is doing, claim selective, vindictive prosecution, try to get the case dismissed, avoid trial entirely. But, you know, under the law the burden shifts to her to prove by clear evidence that the case has an unjustifiable motive.”
Fox News legal analyst weighed in, calling James “lawfare’s happiest warrior.”
Well, she’s not so happy now.
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