Letitia James, New York’s top law enforcer, has spent years swinging the legal hammer at Donald Trump, but now she herself has become a small time, toe-stepping Marie Antoinette. (Historical reference. Look it up)
.Remember the little story about Marie Antoinette, and how she accidentally stepped on the executioners toe as she was led to the blade? Marie said to him, “I’m sorry. I didn’t do that on purpose.” Imagine the irony, because according to some, Letitia stepped on toes too — the wrong ones. Of course, even if convicted, she won’t go to the gallows, but instead to Ernest and Julio Gallo for some Hearty Burgundy at $7.99 a gallon. In fact, “Teesh” won’t even go to jail. Heck, she might even be acquitted,
Miss Letitia ran for attorney general in 2018 vengefully promising to investigate Trump, even jail him, and boy, did she deliver. Her office hit Trump with a civil fraud case, accusing him of inflating property values to snag better loans — and she sorta-kinda won her case. (We’ll revisit this in a moment).
A judge ordered Orange Man Bad to pay nearly half a billion dollars, and James stood tall at press conferences, declaring justice served like Madame Defarge in a lumpy dress.
It looked like a clean win for the rule of law. But fast-forward to October 9, 2025, and the tables have flipped harder than a stranded dolphin in the Gowanus Canal. (Look this up too. It happened about 10 years ago).
A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted James herself on two felony counts of bank fraud and making false statements to a lender.
Suddenly, the hunter is the hunted, and the irony is thicker than Joy Behar’s skull. The charges are straightforward, textbook stuff, and that’s what makes them sting.
Back in 2020, James bought a three-bedroom house in Norfolk, Virginia, for about $300,000. To get a sweet mortgage rate of around 2.5 percent—better than what investors pay—she told the bank it would be her “secondary residence.”
Loan documents spelled it out: “No renting allowed.” But prosecutors say “she”Teesh” turned it into an investment property right away, leasing it to a family of three. That little fib allegedly saved her nearly $19,000 in interest over time. Emails from James to her loan officer back it up, with one noting the house “WILL NOT be my primary residence” but skipping the rental part.
According to endlessly shameless CNN, “…everybody lies on mortgage applications.” No, sorry, CNN, that assumption is 100% false. People who lie on bank statements are committing fraud and pretty much no one does it. My dad once missed getting a mortgage by $3,000 in bank wealth. Did he try anything crooked. Nope. He just bought a less expensive house, and we all lived happily ever after.
If convicted, Letitia faces up to 30 years per count and fines up to a million bucks each. Her office calls it “baseless political retribution,” pointing to Trump’s Truth Social rants demanding her prosecution.
Sure, it reeks of payback—Trump’s been gunning for her since she first sued him. But the evidence? It’s there in black and white, filed in federal court. A grand jury of everyday folks looked at the docs and said, “Indict.” And who the frock wouldn’t want vengeance over this vengeful slime ball? And you know what? You can’t call it vengeance when a Grand Jury of her peers are the ones who indicted her.
The simpletons on the Left like to think that the Trump administration huddle in the White House and concocts schemes against their enemies. Even if that’s true, so what? No one in the history of American politics has been wrongly prosecuted and persecuted like Donald Trump. Truth is, however, that these sanctimonious political hacks are the guilty ones. They deserve to be prosecuted and persecuted. It’s freaking awesome. Imagine how good life must have felt for Mme. DeFarge?
Letitia James’ woes are not some vague conspiracy. It’s mortgage math gone wrong. It’s entitled slime ball behavior that deserves to be punished.
James, who built her career railing against financial shenanigans (there are videos) now stands accused of her own malfeasance. Good!
Remember how she grilled Trump for years over his asset valuations? “No one is above the law,” she’d say, channeling that patrician tone—like Eleanor Roosevelt (a closet communist) lecturing from a Hyde Park porch with measured vowels and moral high ground.
But listen to Letitia now, post-indictment: “I will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights.” It’s the same lofty lilt, the kind that makes you picture her in pearls, sipping tea with June Cleaver while the world burns. Funny how that Eleanor Roosevelt-esque gravitas sounds a tad hollow when you’re the one dodging a courtroom spotlight.
One day she’s the crusader; the next, she’s pleading “baseless” like a first-time offender.
If irony had a laugh track, it’d be cackling. And here’s where history whispers a warning, straight out of the French Revolution playbook.
Think of Maximilien Robespierre, the sleek lawyer who rose to power in 1793 as the architect of the Reign of Terror. He prosecuted royals and rivals with zeal, guillotining thousands under the banner of purifying France. “Virtue and terror are inseparable,” he’d declare in speeches that dripped with self-righteous eloquence, sounding every bit the enlightened statesman. But, by 1794, the pendulum swung the other way — and this time it had a blade attached.
Robespierre’s own allies, tired of the bloodbath, turned on him. Accused of tyranny, Robespierre was arrested, tried in a farce of a hearing, and marched to the same guillotine he’d championed. From prosecutor to prisoner in months—talk about karma’s sharp edge.
James isn’t calling for heads (yet), but her saga echoes that wild reversal: the avenger indicted, the eloquent voice now echoing in a federal echo chamber.
James’s first court date is October 24 in Norfolk. Will she fight it tooth and nail, like she did Trump? Or will this be the plot twist where the AG learns what it’s like on the other side of the bar? Either way, it’s a reminder: the law’s a two-way street, and even the self-appointed traffic cops can get ticketed.
In a world of endless political jousts, this one’s got the scent of real reckoning—overwhelming docs, not just grudges. As for “Tishy” trying to sound like Eleanor amid the mess? Folks, even Roosevelt knew when to drop the patrician purr and face the music. Pass the popcorn; this show’s just getting good.
P.P.S.: Trump’s Turnaround
James’s big swing at Trump? It connected, but the knockout punch got pulled. The trial judge nailed him with a $500 million penalty for fraud, but in August 2025, a New York appeals court axed it as excessive—while keeping the fraud finding intact. Trump’s liable, but no cash grab for now. Hard to fathom, but in Trump’s case, Letitia bit off more than she could chew….and that’s sayin’ sumthin’.
Appeal’s still grinding on. Karma’s got a boomerang.
