New York State Attorney General James, who successfully prosecuted Trump for falsely inflating his wealth, made her first public remarks since her indictment when she claimed she feared “no man,” a subtle allusion to the 79-year-old Republican leader. At a protest in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, she clenched her fist salute to the applauding crowd before saying, “I know what it feels like to be attacked for just doing your job.” “I will not stop, I will not give up, and I will not give in to the aggressive policies of Washington, DC. “I have no fear of men.”
A grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted 66-year-old Democrat James on one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution. She oversaw a case against Trump that resulted in a $454 million civil penalty for inflating his wealth to obtain better terms on financial goods. However, the court’s decision against the president was upheld, and the almost half-billion dollar punishment was overturned on appeal. Democratic socialist Mamdani, 33, remarked of James, “This is our moment to fight for you.” “Anyone who dared to oppose (him) is the target of a scorched earth campaign of retribution by his authoritarian administration.”
The most recent polls, which were taken by Quinnipiac University between October 3 and 7, put Mamdani 13 points ahead of his nearest opponent, former governor Andrew Cuomo, in the November 4 mayoral election in New York City. James was charged a day after former FBI director James Comey, another well-known Trump critic, entered a not guilty plea to charges of lying to Congress and interfering with a congressional investigation. James is accused of making fraudulent claims in order to secure advantageous loan conditions for a home she bought in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020. In a joint statement released Monday, 22 attorneys general from states including California, Illinois, and Washington denounced the Trump administration’s “retaliatory prosecution” of James.
It stated, “Police states and authoritarian regimes, not America’s democracy, are characterized by these types of prosecutorial abuses.” Eric Adams, the incumbent mayor of New York City, has withdrawn from the contest.
