Either President Trump believes Governor Cuomo controls State Attorney General Letitia James the way he controls U.S. Attorney General William Barr, or he’s under the impression that Ms. James would need prodding from someone else to go after his troubled New York business enterprises.
Whichever’s the case, three days before he commandeered the Fourth of July in Washington to turn it into the kind of display of military might favored by the dictators who seem to be his role models, Mr. Trump took to Twitter to set off some online fireworks accusing the Governor of having wielded Ms. James as a “bludgeoning tool” against his local empire for what he claimed were political reasons.
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