Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul among Democrats decrying president’s ‘weaponization’ of justice department
Leading New York Democrats have rallied behind the embattled state attorney general, Letitia James, a day after she was indicted on mortgage fraud charges by a federal prosecutor appointed by Donald Trump last month.
The US Senate’s Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, accused the US president of turning the Department of Justice into “personal attack dogs against their political enemies”, calling the charges “outrageous”.
