Letitia James has won a big battle against President Trump in a highly prejudiced and politically motivated court in the deep blue New York. Who funds this mission of hers to damage Trump? A recent look at her financials has revealed some suspicious details.
When she ran for the Attorney General (AG) of New York in 2018, Democrat lawyer and politician Letitia James promised she would go after Trump, whom she called “illegitimate president” and even invited other AGs to join her in removing Trump from the White House. Now she has got Trump fined for what experts call a victim-less offense by collaborating with an anti-Trump judge in a trial that conservatives widely rejected as political theatre. So whose money has been fueling this woman’s political mission of attacking Trump?
On February 27, a conservative woman who goes by Mel on social media posted on Twitter and then on Thread Reader that she looked into the campaign finances as well as expenditures of Letitia James and found something unexpected – a lifestyle out of the dreams of middle America. Mel mentioned some of the outstanding expenditures of James as AG of New York, like $84,000 on airfare to travel all over the country, which includes private jet rentals.
Other notable expenditures of James detailed in Mel’s post include over $28,500 on hotels, including stays at luxury hotels in Puerto Rico, in 2023 alone. She added:
Then there’s thousands spent on Ubers and Lyfts. Tens of thousands spent on “office” at everywhere from Target to BJ’s wholesale. Over $7,000 dropped at a nightclub in NYC and billed as “office.”
Mel then asked why James would spend over $300,000 in a single year on “campaign consultants” when she had just won re-election in November of the previous year. While saying she is not accusing James of breaking the law with these expenses, Mel wrote:
But considering the high bar she set for Trump in his civil fraud case, I find it more than a little galling that she plays so fast and loose w what she deems to be “legitimate campaign expenses.”
Shifting from James’s expenditures to her campaign’s funding, Mel posted a history of the AG’s donations and points out the big number of “ghost donors” behind them.
Mel wrote:
“It turns out ghost donors are just as big of a problem at the state level as they are at the federal.”
Whether the questionable donations and use of campaign funds by James as dug up by Mel see the light of any serious investigation, the AG has made many frown by her conduct. On Sunday (March 3), Allysia Finley in The Wall Street Journal questioned James “dubious civil fraud suit” that has no victims and wrote:
“Whatever Donald Trump’s financial transgressions, they pale in comparison with Attorney General Letitia James’s desecration of the law in service of destroying a political opponent.”
Finley went on to say that what James is doing is “the stuff of banana republics.”
Last October, the online version of the conservative news publication The Boston Broadside posted comments from Donald J. Trump Campaign showing a $20,000 donation from George Soros, the leftist Hungarian-American billionaire whom conservatives see as a main financer of radical leftist agenda around the world.
In November 2023, StateOfUnion.org published an op-ed by Jordan Andrews who pointed that not only has Letitia James received significant support from megadonors like Soros but Judge Arthur Engoron, in whose court James tried Trump for alleged civil fraud, has been a donor to Democrats and is known for controversial views on juries.
President Trump has appealed the ruling of Engoron that ordered him to pay nearly half a billion dollars in fines.