Letitia James’ debate with Saritha Komatireddy couldn’t have been more revealing
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Letitia James’ debate with Saritha Komatireddy couldn’t have been more revealing
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Attorney General Letitia James was outwitted, outlawyered and simply outclassed by her electoral opponent Saritha Komartireddy in their Thursday night debate.
James — whose unimpressive legal career hardly qualified her to be state attorney general — reeled like a lightweight as seasoned criminal prosecutor Komartireddy threw lightening jabs and bruising blows that left James blinking into the cameras and wishing the one-sided scrap could wrap up early.
Hammered on her terrible record regarding violent crime, Medicaid fraud, sexual assault and serious mental illness, James relied on two reliable go-to answers: “That’s not my job” and, of course . . . “Trump.”
James made the preposterous........
