Trump asks court for New York attorney general's recusal from civil investigation, as Letitia James accuses the Trump Organization of seeking to 'delay our investigation into its business dealings'
In an emailed statement Monday evening, James pointed to the action as the latest example of the Trump Organization allegedly seeking "to delay our investigation into its business dealings."The motion, filed in the Northern District of N.Y., accuses the Democratic attorney general of overreach and launching a "politically-motivated attack."
"By playing both sides, she is able to cherry pick her investigatory methods—civil or criminal—in a calculated manner to, for example, leverage a Fifth Amendment assertion and obtain an adverse inference," the filing alleges.James said in her statement that "neither Donald Trump nor the Trump Organization get to dictate if and where they will answer for their actions."