Los Angeles Times senior affairs correspondent Harry Litman on Wednesday expressed disgust at lawyers representing President-elect Donald Trump for their efforts to end New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil lawsuit against him.
Writing on X, Litman posted a link to the full filing, which calls on James to end her suit against Trump on the grounds that he has called for "our Nation's partisan strife to end, and for the contending factions to join forces for the greater good of the country."
They add that "this call for unity extends to the legal onslaught against him and his family that permeated the most recent election cycle."
Commenting on this, Litman did not hold back his contempt for the Trump lawyers' argument.
"The competition is extremely stiff, but Team Trump might just have filed the single most brazen and nauseating motion in its whole existence," he wrote.
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Later in his thread, he elaborated on the reasons for his disgust at the argument.
"The presentation is larded with quotes from Washington and especially Lincoln and pitched as a gracious winner's call for national unity as in the Second Inaugural and respecting the voters' verdict," he argued. "It's nauseating."
Trump has repeatedly pushed for criminal prosecutions of his political opponents, going so far in one case to promote calls for former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) be dragged in front of a military tribunal.
During the campaign, Trump also referred to his political opponents at various times as "vermin" and "the enemy from within."
