Scott Jennings Uses Letitia James' Own Words Against Her: 'I Don't Think the American People Are Going to Have Too Much Sympathy'

There’s a reason old sayings endure — because they tend to ring true.
And few could be more fitting for New York Attorney General Letitia James than “If you live by the sword, you’ll die by the sword.”

James, who rose to national prominence by relentlessly pursuing President Donald J. Trump and his family through a civil fraud case, now finds herself indicted on fraud charges of her own — and her critics aren’t holding back.

Among them is CNN’s own conservative commentator Scott Jennings, who delivered a scathing rebuke of James during his appearance on CNN Newsnight Thursday night. Jennings made it clear that the irony of the situation hasn’t been lost on anyone paying attention.

“Letitia James is the absolute worst possible poster child for the argument of selective prosecution,” Jennings said. “Her entire political career has been on the idea of selectively prosecuting one person, Donald J. Trump.

“Whether you think the merits of the case are strong or weak, or how you think it’s going to play out, going out tonight and crying and whining and fussing about selective prosecution, when it comes to Letitia James, who ran an entire campaign prosecuting, saying she was going to go after Trump … The cases she brought, it was only because of Trump.

“I don’t think the American people are going to have too much sympathy for it.”

Jennings went even further, drawing a connection between James’ political crusade and President Trump’s ongoing success on the world stage.

“Thank God she failed in her ultimate goal [of prosecuting Trump], otherwise we wouldn’t be bringing home these hostages on Monday. That’s all I got to say about that.”

The conservative analyst didn’t stop at television commentary. On X (formerly Twitter), Jennings threw James’ own words back at her, quoting directly from a February 2024 post she made while boasting about her prosecution of Trump.

“Allow me to quote Letitia James directly: ‘When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of hard-working people,’” Jennings posted. “There was no outrage from Dems about Tish’s political prosecution of Trump — but now that the shoe is on the other foot, it’s a crisis.”

For context, the original post from James read:

“When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of hardworking people. Everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them.

There simply cannot be different rules for different people.”

Now, as she faces her own legal reckoning, even CNN’s conservative voice sees the irony in full display — and he’s not alone.

It seems the proverb holds true: live by the sword, die by the sword.