Anderson Cooper calls Letitia James’ 2018 Trump threat ‘not a great look’

CNN’s Anderson Cooper admitted it was “not a great look” for New York Attorney General Letitia James to threaten to sue the president Donald Trump After her election in 2018.

“According to PolitiFactThe day after her 2018 election, a community activist asked Letitia James if she would sue President Trump. “Oh, we will definitely sue him,” she replied. We’d be a real pain in the ass. He would personally know my name,” Cooper recalled Thursday.

“I mean, that’s not a great look for someone who just got elected, or just campaigned, and didn’t even look, I think… deeply into any evidence,” he added.

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While CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin agreed that James’ 2018 comments were “inappropriate,” he argued that they were typical of “how our system works.”

“We live in a system where district attorneys and district attorneys… US – Unlike almost every other country – they are elected officials, politicians, so they run for office to make political statements. “This is the way our system works. It’s not pretty. I don’t think it’s a great system, but there’s nothing unusual about it,” he told Cooper.

Toobin added that just because James made “inappropriate comments” about the president doesn’t mean she should be “charged with fraud years later,” arguing that criminal cases are supposed to “stand or fall on the merits.”

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Cooper’s comments came during a broader discussion about… James accused Charged with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution by a federal grand jury on Wednesday.

James faces up to 30 years in prison on each count, a fine of up to $1 million on each count, and forfeiture if convicted, said U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan.

James said in a statement that the charges are part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to exact “political retaliation at all costs.”

“His decision to fire the U.S. Attorney who refused to bring charges against me — and replace him with someone blindly loyal not to the law, but to the President — contradicts the fundamental principles of our country,” James said. “This is the time for leaders on both sides of the aisle to speak out against this blatant perversion of our justice system.”

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Earlier this year, the Department of Justice I opened an investigation In the alleged mortgage fraud case after James successfully won a civil case last year against Trump and the Trump Organization over allegations of wrongful business practices.

Although James won the civil case against Trump, the New York Court of Appeals overturned the $500 million civil fraud penalty against the president in late August.

The New York Circuit of Appeals overturned the penalty after ruling that the restitution amounted to an excessive fine in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

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Fox News’ Luis Casiano contributed to this report.