On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in Florida against New York Attorney General Letitia James. In the suit, he said that James had misused her position to try to intimidate and harass him.
In a 41-page lawsuit filed in Trump’s home county of Palm Beach, James is accused of breaking the law in Florida and New York during her investigation of the former president’s business dealings, which he claims was politically motivated ahead of the midterm elections in 2022.
In the lawsuit that was filed on Wednesday, Trump’s attorneys wrote, “What began as a cartoonish, thinly veiled effort to publicly malign President Trump for personal political gain has morphed into a plot to obtain control of a global private enterprise ultimately owned by a Florida revocable trust in which President Trump is the settlor.”
In September, James filed a $250 million lawsuit against Trump, his children Eric, Ivanka, and Donald Trump Jr., as well as the Trump Organization, alleging “staggering” fraud in the family real estate business.
She alleged that the former president and his Trump Organization inflated the value of his prized assets, such as his golf courses and homes, in order to obtain allegedly advantageous loans and tax benefits.
