New York Attorney General Letitia James signaled connected Wednesday she is not going to backmost down connected her cases against President-Elect Donald Trump arsenic she vowed to combat backmost against immoderate imaginable 'revenge oregon retribution' she whitethorn face.
The Trump-hating authoritative declared she would not compromise the state's integrity oregon principles arsenic she seeks to enactment with the caller administration.
She admitted, 'we did not expect this result,' but insisted, 'We are prepared to respond to this result.
'And my bureau has been preparing for respective months due to the fact that we've been present before,' James said during a fiery quality conference. 'We faced this situation before, and we utilized the regularisation of instrumentality to combat back.
'And we are prepared to combat backmost erstwhile again, due to the fact that arsenic the lawyer wide of this large state, it is my occupation to support and support the rights of New Yorkers and the regularisation of law,' she said, adding that she 'will not shrink from that responsibility.'
New York Attorney General Letitia James signaled connected Wednesday she is not going to backmost down connected her cases against President-Elect Donald Trump
She made the comments astatine a quality league as Trump officially won the White House
She noted that betwixt 2019 and 2021, her bureau took astir 100 ineligible actions against Trump's archetypal medication erstwhile helium put a headdress connected authorities and section taxes and tried to destruct funds and grants for instrumentality enforcement officials.
The Attorney General's bureau besides fought to support President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, forestall a question astir citizenship connected the 2020 census and enactment a halt to his program to dismantle the US Postal Service.
Based connected those erstwhile experiences, James said she knows however the incoming Trump medication volition act, and has a contingency program successful spot to respond to immoderate onslaught that whitethorn travel her way.
'We're acceptable to respond to immoderate attempts to chopped oregon destruct backing to the large authorities of New York,' she said arsenic Trump officially won the White House.
'So contempt what has happened connected the nationalist stage, we volition proceed to basal gangly successful the look of injustice, revenge oregon retribution.
'This is not the clip to beryllium fearful, New York, but faithful and steadfast, knowing that I, arsenic the lawyer general, on with my full team, we are guardians of the instrumentality and we are prepared, my friends, to combat back,' she declared.
James had antecedently won a $454million civilian fraud judgement against the incoming president, which helium is trying to appeal
James had antecedently won a $454million civilian fraud judgement against the incoming president, aft accusing him of inflating his nett worthy by billions of dollars to get amended indebtedness and security terms.
She targeted Trump's Westchester play nine and Seven Springs property as properties she could prehend to marque the enslaved payment.
The erstwhile president has since appealed the monolithic ruling, and entreaty tribunal judges had pugnacious questions for New York prosecutors successful September, signaling they whitethorn broadside with Trump successful the case.
The judges wanted to cognize wherefore the penalties were acceptable astatine astir fractional a cardinal dollars and who had been harmed successful a lawsuit wherever neither broadside had mislaid money.
However, the tribunal has not yet made immoderate decisions successful the case.
When asked astir the lawsuit connected Wednesday, James simply said she is 'not fearful of Donald Trump.'
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