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Indicted AG Letitia James mercilessly trolled after smug tweets about Trump come back to bite her
By JENSEN BIRD
Published: 14:07 EDT, 11 October 2025 | Updated: 14:27 EDT, 11 October 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James is being ruthlessly mocked for smug posts she made taunting Donald Trump about his legal woes following her own indictment.
James is charged with alleged mortgage fraud over a loan she secured for a property in Norfolk, Virginia.
The charges are widely viewed as retribution by Trump after James successfully led a civil fraud case against him in 2023.
The attorney general did not waste the opportunity to stick in the knife in at the time, with a series of jeering posts on social media.
In one penned in February last year, she said: 'Roses are red. Violets are blue. No one is above the law. Even when you think the rules don’t apply to you. Happy Valentine’s Day!'
Days later, Trump was barred from operating his business in New York for three years and was found liable for more than $350 million in damages. The verdict was overturned by a higher court in August but James plans to appeal.
But now James' own words have come back to bite her and she has been mercilessly trolled online.
Congresswoman Elise Sefanik was among those leading the pile on. She said: 'No one is above the law. Letitia James is going to find out how true her own words are. For years, I fought to hold her accountable for abusing the courts to tear down Donald Trump. Now she faces prison for her alleged crimes.'
James mocked Trump in February 2024 over his indictment
Trump's supporters are using her post to mock her over her indictment
MAGA acolyte and conservative influencer Benny Johnson re-shared James' old post with the caption: 'This aged perfectly.'
'Roses are red. Violets are blue. If you commit mortgage fraud, a grand-jury will indict you!' one online commenter joked.
'If you didn't complain about this blatant politicization and mocking of the justice system, then please spare me your complaints today,' wrote another conservative journalist.
'Karma is fascinating to watch in real time,' remarked another.
'Loud mouth Letitia James tweets comeback to haunt her,' another person wrote.
Even CNN's Anderson Cooper has gone after James for her criticism of Trump. He remarked that her 2018 vow to judicially target the president was 'not a great look.'
'I mean that's not a great look for somebody who has just been elected, who just been campaigning, who hasn't even looked, I guess deeply, at any evidence,' Cooper said.
A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted James for bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution.
If convicted, she faces up to 30 years in prison per count, up to $1 million per count, and forfeiture.
James stood tall in response to the indictment in a video response posted Thursday.
US Representative Elise Stefanik was among those piling onto James over the tweets
'This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system,' she wrote on X.
'I am not fearful - I am fearless,' she declared, vowing: 'We will fight these baseless charges aggressively and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights.'
In her video, James also accused the president of 'forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.
'These charges are baseless and the president's own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost,' she continued.
Trump himself and many of his supporter's claimed that his own indictment was also politically motivated.
James is expected to make her first appearance in federal court on October 24.
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From Daily Mail
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