As New York Attorney General Letitia James pled not guilty on Friday to mortgage fraud allegations, MSNBC legal analyst Charles Coleman Jr. highlighted the network’s glaring double standards on the situation James finds herself in compared to what she put President Trump through.
Jansing led Coleman with the idea that if taken to its logical conclusion, it would result in no public official ever being held legally accountable for anything, “So, in the meantime, what is the real-world impact of this, Charles, on Tish James? I know you said she absolutely doesn't have any fear. I worked in Albany, New York, for 20 years. I spent some time in the AG's offices over the years, and they seem pretty busy to me. They had a pretty full workload. There's money involved. There's time, there's emotion involved. Can you just address that? And the whole idea of upending people's lives?”
As MSNBC shifted from “nobody’s above the law” to “just think about the defendant’s personal life,” Coleman added, “Well, I think that speaks to what Peter was talking about and the fact that it's very obvious that Donald Trump is aware that the process of litigation and the process of prosecution in many respects can be the punishment. And that extends to the DOJ and Halligan's responsibility to sort of follow those marching orders, as it were, that we have seen very publicly displayed by Donald Trump. I want to be clear about, as it relates to his political enemies, Letitia James being one of them.”
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