The Trump family has had enough of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ witch hunt. The Trump family has filed an official complaint against the New York AG accusing the Democrat of using the investigation into the Trumps’ business as a way to “garner votes, money and support, and now, as Attorney General, to gain political support.”
Fox News reports:
A preliminary statement included in the filing, which alleged James sidestepped the state constitution, claimed the office of New York’s attorney general (OAG) “runs from the words of Letitia James, deliberately avoiding the fact that she has taken equal ownership of the current criminal case and the ongoing grand jury investigation” targeting the Trump family.
The complaint targets James for her “blatant and obvious attempt to suppress [Donald Trump’s] voice, interfere with his political ambitions and silence the will of millions of voters” over the last three years, as well as her efforts to collude with former New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to run parallel investigations.
The filing accuses New York’s chief law enforcement officer of having violated Criminal Procedural Law (CPL) 190.40 and the New York constitution when issuing the Trump family subpoenas.
“The New York Constitution, as interpreted by the Court of Appeals, and the CPL promulgated thereunder, created protections for subpoenaed witnesses that federal law does not provide,” the filing stated. “Under the New York Constitution and the CPL, an agency conducting a criminal investigation through an active grand jury is required, if the witness is subpoenaed, to examine the subject or target of the investigation before the grand jury.”
The filing concludes James’ “investigation and prosecution [is] based solely on political animus” and that “such selective prosecution violates the Equal Protection Clauses of the Federal and New York States Constitutions and requires that the subpoenas be quashed.”
James recently subpoenaed two of Trump’s children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., to testify “in connection with an investigation into the valuation of properties owned or controlled by Donald J. Trump or the Trump Organization, or any matter which the Attorney General deems pertinent thereto.”
