Nothing personal, just business.
— Dutch Schultz
With the decision, Trump can no longer avoid justice.
"He's running out of the tricks that he used in the past," one journalist noted.
Not quite.
He can take a page from fellow New Yorker Dutch Schultz.
He can kill Letitia James.
Schultz's reaction was true to form.
"Dewey's gotta go," he told associates and put out a contract on the prosecutor's life worth $25,000 (over $500,000 in today's money).
When Schultz advised the New York syndicate of the contract, the other family bosses balked, insisting that to rub out Dewey would only bring more government prosecution. They refused to authorize Schultz's hit.
"I’m gonna hit him myself," Schultz told the syndicate.
But the hit never happened.
Instead, the syndicate rubbed out Schultz, whom they considered a loose cannon.
But, flashing forward, Trump doesn't have a syndicate to answer to. He can rub out Letitia James with impunity.
Stay tuned.