Fox News host Jeanine Pirro lambasted New York Attorney General Letitia James for being so “trashy” in her zeal to harm Donald Trump.
Pirro was addressing Trump’s attorneys stating in a court filing Monday that “a bond in the judgment’s full amount is ‘a practical impossibility,’” after having approached 30 companies to back the bond — the former president was hit with a staggering $464 million fine in the civil fraud case brought by James, who campaigned on the promise to get Trump.
Trump’s lawyers wrote, “The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude.”
“Let me say one thing, no private company has ever been faced with this kind of money that they had to put up in order to appeal,” Pirro said on The Five. “Everybody understand, this is just so he can appeal. If he doesn’t come up with half a billion dollars in cash, he can’t appeal the case which, on Eighth Amendment grounds of the Constitution, is an excessive fine by anyone’s analysis.”
Jeanine Pirro on #TheFive calls Letitia James trashy after explaining how ludicrous Trump’s bond is:
“No private company has ever been faced with this kind of money.. in order to appeal!
Which, on 8th Amendment grounds of the Constitution, is an excessive fine.” pic.twitter.com/He8iHPBFtU
— Eddie (@ICU1010) March 19, 2024
“And finally, the thing — and I heard this today — is maybe it’s time for him to go to federal court on this Eighth Amendment claim so that he gets some kind of repose or something that gives him the chance to hold on for a minute,” she added.
Turning her attention to James, Pirro did not hold back.
“And by the way, her drooling, I look at 40 Wall Street, every day… that is beneath the office of attorney general. Stop being so trashy in the way you approach this defendant and in the way that you approach the resolution of this,” she concluded.
The latter remark refers to James saying she is prepared to seize the former president’s assets if he is unable to find the cash to cover the fine.
Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
Can you imagine her as a VP? I would love to see it!
— JayJay (@2Trump2024) March 19, 2024
This is about bankrupting him before election nothing more.
— Dru (@DruMayle) March 19, 2024
Exactly the point I have been making all day. i am not a brilliant legal genius.
I give full credit to mark Levin who pointed out how the 8th amendment to the constitution could be used to
Appeal this case.— Steven Nagel (@StevenNagel14) March 20, 2024
Eventually goes to the Supreme Court and will be ruled unconstitutional, 9-0.
— Net Present Value (@Aesop_NPV) March 19, 2024
Letitia James IS trashy. She has sat and sneered, smiled, and smirked throughout all of this, except when she was booed. Sad that law schools put people like this out into the public. And sadder that NYC votes her in.
— Lucretia Pittman (@kissapittman) March 19, 2024
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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