Anderson Cooper Says ‘Not a Great Look’ for Letitia James to Say She’s Going to Sue Trump the Day After She’s Elected

COOPER: “Jeff, I mean, according to PolitiFact, the day after she was elected in 2018, Letitia James was asked by a community activist if she was going to sue President Trump. And she replied, ‘oh, we‘re going to definitely sue him. We‘re going to be a real pain in the a**. He‘s going to know my name personally.’ I mean, that‘s not a great look for somebody who has just been elected, who has just been campaigning, who hasn‘t even looked, I guess, deeply at any evidence.”

TOOBIN: “Well, that‘s — you know, we live in a system where attorneys general and district attorneys in the United States, unlike almost any other country, are elected officials, are politicians. So, they run for office making political statements. That‘s how our system works. It‘s not pretty. I don‘t think it‘s a great system, but there‘s nothing uncommon about it. The other — the other point to make, though, is just because she made inappropriate comments, that doesn‘t mean she should get indicted for fraud years later. I mean, that‘s — we‘re not supposed to live in a system of that kind of tit-for-tat. Criminal cases are supposed to stand or fall on their own merits.”