Regardless of what you think of the president, it’s undeniable that AG James' Trump derangement has damaged New York, and she does not deserve another term.
Page A11From§Eachthe wee small hours edition — 31 August 2026
New York Post publishes three separate pieces attacking the same attorney general in one edition.
As it ran on the front
Count them. One op-ed says the attorney general's got an evil eye for the President and a blind eye for New York crime. A second says her abuses of power have been laid bare by an anonymous prosecutor blowing the whistle. A third says she and the California AG are waging a war on local news by blocking a merger. Three bylines, three different writers, one target, one edition, same newspaper. That's not a news cycle. That's a barrage, and barrages don't happen by accident — somebody scheduled it.
Here's the part that actually checks out, because I don't deal in the parts that don't: the Nexstar-Tegna deal is real, blocking it is a real regulatory act, and you can go read the filing yourself. Everything past that — the 'evil eye,' the 'abuses laid bare,' the whistleblower nobody's named — that's opinion section, dressed in news-section font, on a day when the actual news is that two state attorneys general slowed down a broadcast merger that would've put more local television stations under one owner's roof.…
…(cont) Ask yourself why a single deal — one merger review, one regulatory brake pump — earns three separate opinion pieces in one publication in one day, aimed at the two officials who pumped it. That's not coverage. That's a rate card. Somebody's unhappy about a deal not going through, and the way you make an official unhappy back is you put her name in the paper attached to the word 'abuse' three times before lunch, hoping one of the three sticks enough that the next merger review goes easier.
This is how it works now — not a smoking gun, just volume. You don't need one story that proves the con, you need three stories that don't prove anything individually but add up to a feeling, and the feeling is the product. The receipts here aren't about what Letitia James did. They're about what three op-eds in one edition are for, and who benefits when the next merger review comes up soft.
“One outlet, one target, three hit pieces before lunch — that's not journalism keeping tabs, that's a campaign with a byline rotation. Somebody's mad about a blocked merger and it shows.”
“Three separate writers reached the same conclusion independently, that's just accountability journalism doing its job — coordinated, no, I wouldn't say coordinated, I'd say... coordinated. Okay, coordinated.”
The receipts
Among state Attorney General Tish James’ other misadventures are her headline-hunting “consumer protection” suits that are anything but.
Tish James had proved herself a rancid political hack before Daniel Wiesenfeld blew the whistle; let’s hope she’s soon out of government if not in prison.
This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front.