State AGs demand formal end to prosecutions targeting President-elect Trump

SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — A multistate coalition of Attorneys General are calling for an end to what they are calling baseless prosecutions of the next President of the United States – all of them.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 23 of his colleagues are calling on New York Attorney General Letitia James, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and Special Prosecutor Jack Smith to end their prosecutions targeting President-elect Donald Trump. The coalition has issued a cease-and-desist letter demanding an immediate end to these cases.

“The American justice system was weaponized at unprecedented scale to harass President Trump, falsely damage his reputation, and derail his campaign. This means, at several levels of government, partisan actors were abusing their official powers to weaken the political opponent of the sitting President and then the sitting Vice President. These baseless prosecutions must be ended immediately,” said Attorney General Paxton.

The letter reads: “President of the United States is the most important job in the world. The President leads the free world. And America just gave President Trump a mandate to lead the United States to a brighter future. Politically motivated prosecutions aimed at ‘self-promotion’ are at no time appropriate.… Now yours must end.”

Attorney General Paxton has led national efforts to hold those responsible accountable for what he believes are corrupt prosecutions against Trump.

On November 8, Attorney General Paxton filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) for records related to Jack Smith’s investigation and sued the DOJ on November 11 to prevent the destruction of any of those documents.