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Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: Letitia James Is a Victim of Her Own Actions—Not a Trump ‘Revenge Tour’

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump is forcing the Democrats to face something they’re not used to: accountability. We’re seeing this play out with his indictment of Letitia James, the attorney general for the state of New York, who made being a Trump adversary a core part of her political brand. Now, she faces charges related to her […]

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The Attorney General of the State of New York, Letitia James, she's the chief law enforcement officer

0:05.2

remember of the entire state of New York, and she's been indicted by the federal Trump DOJ.

0:11.2

And the charges are varied.

0:13.1

She bought a property in Maryland, and that property she declared on a federal form to obtain

0:20.1

a mortgage and also state on taxes, she said that

0:23.6

that in one case would be her principal residence and another that it would be perhaps

0:28.4

a second home and not rented.

0:30.5

So what's going on?

0:32.1

Is that when somebody does a wrong, do you forget it and just say, let's move on because

0:36.7

if we don't, we'll enter a cycle of

0:38.7

ruinous tip-for-tat lawfare or do you say we're going to hold people responsible who broke the

0:44.2

law we're going to stop it because there will be deterrence hello this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.

1:01.4

The Attorney General of the state of New York, Letitia James, has recently been indicted

1:06.5

by a grand jury.

1:09.3

She's the chief law enforcement officer, remember of the entire state of New York.

1:13.6

And the charges are varied, but they can be boiled down to she bought a property in Maryland. And that

1:22.1

property, she declared on a federal form to obtain a mortgage and various other considerations that would

1:31.0

also state on taxes. She said that that in one case would be her principal residence,

1:38.5

and another case, she said that it would be perhaps a second home and not rented.

1:54.4

And as early as 1983, she had applied for an income property where she may be mistakenly, but she wrongly described the property's square footage and rooms as a rental.

1:59.9

And more importantly, she allegedly put her

2:02.4

father down as her husband in this 1983 application. So all of this is coming to the fore, and she's

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