CNN legal expert Elie Honig says the quiet part out loud regarding NY AG Tish James' prosecution of Trump.

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“Well, two things can be true and are true at once. Yes, Donald Trump inflated the value of his assets by a lot. I think that’s been established by this case. There’s a separate question whether anyone was actually harmed because the banks made the loans, they knew what they were doing, they got paid back,” Honig said.

“But it is a fact that Letitia James, as Paula Reid said, Letitia James campaigned for attorney general in 2018 specifically on a promise to vote for me and I’ll get Donald Trump. That’s not something she said once. She said it dozens of times. She said it in writing. She fundraised off it. And she wasn’t even specific. She didn’t say, I’ll get him for inflating his assets. At one point, she said he could be indicted for money laundering at one point. She said — the day after she was elected, she said, and I quote, we’re definitely going to sue his ass. He’ll know my name,” he said.

“And when you make statements like that, how can you say there’s no political angle to this? You can maybe say the facts are there, but it’s also political. That’s Letitia James’ own doing,” he said.

[It’s the first fraud trial on this scale I’ve seen with not one single victim of the alleged fraudulent activity. The taxes got paid. The loans got repaid. The banks profited off of their business with Trump. The entire premise is absurd, and it’s so obviously political that it can’t possibly survive scrutiny on appeal — especially with the judge’s own prejudicial remarks and actions on the record. — Ed]