Heads Up to Democrats and Corporate Media --Trump's Next Indictment Targets for Criminality: Adam Schiff & Letitia James

Either Jeffrey Toobin does Democrats a solid on this one, or he publicly tells corporate media there's no "there" there, when the felon's attack dog Bondi moves on two powerful and well known Democrats.

"... The case against Ms. James has three parts, First, in 2023, she financed the down payment to help her niece buy a single-family home in Norfolk, Va. According to her attorney Abbe Lowell, Ms. James signed several documents that made clear that her niece, not Ms. James herself, would live in the house. But on one form, a power of attorney, she indicated that she herself would live there, which was obviously a mistake. In light of the other documents, the bank itself could not have been misled, and in any event, the mistake on the power of attorney brought Ms. James no monetary gain.

In 2001, Ms. James bought a four-story brownstone in Brooklyn with separate apartments for herself, her mother, her brother and a family friend. On one form, filed 24 years ago, the property was listed as having five units, not four. At all other times, she correctly listed it as four units. Last, in 1983, Ms. James’s father bought a house in Queens for the family. On the mortgage application, he mistakenly listed Ms. James, who was just out of college, as his spouse, not his daughter, although other documents listed their relationship correctly. Ms. James has denied any wrongdoing, and according to her lawyer, the accusation that she may have financially benefited is baseless.

[Third,] In a demonstration of the ferocity of the legal assault on Ms. James, her office was subpoenaed last week in a different criminal investigation, led by Justice Department prosecutors in upstate New York... aimed at proving that Ms. James committed some kind of misconduct during the fraud investigation of Mr. Trump and his company, as well as in a separate lawsuit that her office filed against the National Rifle Association. The only basis for this case, it seems, is that the president was unhappy with the outcome of both cases, which Ms. James’s office won.

As for Mr. Schiff, the investigation of him is rooted in the fact that like many members of Congress, he owns two residences, one in his home state of California and another in the Washington suburbs. According to mortgage documents, Mr. Schiff listed both as his “primary” residence, which, according to a social media post by the president, represented an effort to “get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America.” At the time Mr. Schiff applied for the mortgages, he was already in Congress, so the banks knew he had two residences. There does not appear to be any deception by Mr. Schiff and he has publicly denied the claims. (In addition, Mr. Schiff apparently last applied for a mortgage in 2012, which means any possible crime would be outside the 10-year statute of limitations; that would probably apply to most of the charges against Ms. James as well.)

...There is no remedy in federal law to stop even clearly meritless investigations. At best, the two elected officials can look forward to months of detailing their personal financial arrangements; in other words, they will be compelled to violate the political maxim that holds if you’re explaining, you’re losing.
Worse yet, their legal fates are in the hands of a dedicated political enemy who will be able to present the case for indictment to a grand jury... The two elected officials will be able to offer formal legal and factual defenses only after they are indicted — that is, when they are criminal defendants in federal court, ... hardly a welcome forum.

President Trump has always been a master of projection. His accusations of misconduct nearly always replicate what he himself has done. So it is with “weaponization,” which is how he describes the entirely legitimate efforts during the Biden years to hold him accountable for his financial chicanery and his efforts to overturn his loss of the 2020 election ... Now, at his behest, his administration is turning that word against two of his most prominent critics.
For Mr. Trump, there may be few spoils of victory sweeter than the ordeal that Ms. James and Mr. Schiff will soon endure."

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It's just a heads up, so that some don't believe the anti-Democrat corporate media if/when it decides to hype how "Trump might have something there!" regarding
a) the Bondi theater of investigations, or
b) any of Bondi's "ham sandwich" grand jury indictments.

James and Schiff's cases will probably be dismissed with their first pre-trial motions to dismiss by reason of the statute of limitations, and because as the record shows, there is no "there" there.