Miranda Devine: AG Letitia James turns evil eye on Trump and blind eye to NY crime

We know Trump-deranged New York Attorney General Letitia James campaigned on jailing the president, but an explosive all-staff email from one of her star prosecutors Friday claims her office explicitly directed him to “find and pursue crimes” to pin on Donald Trump and his allies, according to the Albany Times- Union.In a bridge-burning email to 2,000 colleagues at 10 a.m.Friday, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld claimed that he had been instructed by his supervisor “to find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump.”“The best part of having f–k you money is being able to tell the truth, without fear of consequences so here we go,” his email began, before listing James’ efforts to frame Trump, according to a readout provided to The Post.Wiesenfeld, 34, alleged his boss, bureau chief Shamiso Maswoswe, directed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger) . . .

without having a credible reason for targeting these organizations and individuals . . .“Presumably she acted at the behest of Tish [James] . . .“Tish’s personal grudges with Trump sets the agenda.Find a crime and any crime of his would do.”He pointed out that James is using “significant public taxpayer dollars to target convenient public enemies” while ignoring “rampant non-profit homeless shelter fraud, Medicaid fraud, and crimes in and around synagogues,” he wrote.“Tish is prioritizing political theater and getting re-elected in November over actually improving the quality of life of New Yorkers.“Going after Trump, even unsuccessfully, wins elections in New York.

Tracking down inconspicuous and very real crimes does not.”Within an hour of Wiesenfeld pressing send, his email was remotely deleted from the inboxes of all employees in a major damage-control operation, and vanished from the department’s servers so quickly that some employees did not have ...