Trump Organization responds to subpoena request by accusing New York AG of being 'in violation of every conceivable ethical rule'
- The Trump Organization responded Wednesday to a 160-page filing from NY's attorney general.
- A spokesperson for the company lashed out at AG Tish James.
The Trump Organization came out with a strongly-worded response Wednesday morning to the New York attorney general's latest legal action, repeating many of the former president and his family's personal attacks on Tish James.
"The only one misleading the public is Letitia James," a spokesperson said in the statement. "She defrauded New Yorkers by basing her entire candidacy on a promise to get Trump at all costs without having seen a shred of evidence and in violation of every conceivable ethical rule."
James announced late Tuesday that her office has filed a motion to compel former President Donald Trump and his eldest children — Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump — to comply with a subpoena and appear for sworn testimony.
"Three years later she is now faced with the stark reality that she has no case," the statement continued. "So, in response to Trump suing her and filing multiple ethical complaints, and on the heels of her failed governor's race, she has no choice but to mislead the public yet again by misrepresenting the facts and ignoring her own inflammatory comments. Her allegations are baseless and will be vigorously defended."
Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, tweeted a video montage of James campaigning on taking on Trump.
"Letitia you can not escape your own words. This is all window dressing for your abuse of office and ethical misconduct (which we are prosecuting you for)," he wrote on Twitter, also decrying the investigation as a "PR move to revive a political career after your gubernatorial disaster."
There is no evidence James has run afoul of stat ethics laws, and like the rest of the Democratic field in 2018's New York attorney general's race, she campaigned on prosecuting Trump.
James had been campaigning for governor on her portfolio of Trump investigations and lawsuits, but ended up dropping out in December. She will instead seek reelection to her current post in November.
The former president has repeatedly tried to paint James as motivated solely by political animus and has been threatening to sue her.
Eric Trump echoed that sentiment in a recent Fox News appearance where he depicted the investigation as looking into minor document errors rather than the alleged misrepresenting of property values for financial gain.
"Literally you have the entire district attorney's office, the entire attorney general's office trying to look into every aspect of my father's life to see if they can find or manufacture a comma that was out of place to try and get him, because they know he's been the most influential politician in, frankly, probably the last 100 years in this country, and they know they can't stop him in Washington, DC, so they have to attack him at home, and they have to attack his family, and it's disgusting," Eric Trump said of his father on "Hannity" last Monday.
He also promised that his family has "the best legal, ethical minds" fighting against James' investigation.