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Trump opponent: Prosecutor Letitia James indicted
Updated on October 9, 2025 – 11:29 p.mLesedauer: 8 min.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted on Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia, American media reported. James has been under investigation since May over a 2023 mortgage she took out to help her niece buy a home in Norfolk, Virginia. A grand jury in the US state of Virginia, where Trump opponent and former FBI chief James Comey was indicted two weeks ago for alleged “serious crimes”, has brought the charges, the US broadcaster CNN and other US media reported on Thursday.
Before Trump’s return to the White House, Democrat James accused him of fraud allegations. A civil court then fined Trump almost half a billion dollars. However, an appeals court called the fine “excessive” and overturned the verdict in August. James announced that he would appeal.
According to several US media outlets, the National Guardsmen ordered by US President Donald Trump to the Chicago area are already in action. The TV station CNN reported, citing its own video footage, that National Guardsmen were patrolling the grounds of an ICE migration agency facility near the city of over a million inhabitants. Soldiers from Texas were observed entering the area during the night. The TV station CBS News also reported on the arrival, citing community information.
On Thursday afternoon (local time), a judge in Chicago granted an urgent application by media professionals against the US Department of Homeland Security. It temporarily banned federal officials in the Chicago area from using force against or intimidating members of the press, demonstrators and worshipers. Among other things, weapons such as rubber bullets or irritant gas are not allowed to be used, according to the interim order. Reporters should not be prevented from doing their work or arrested unless there is suspicion of a crime. However, officials are allowed to instruct them to change their location if they could impede a police operation.
A hearing was also scheduled today in a federal court in Chicago – the court could thwart US President Trump’s plans to deploy soldiers to the city with over a million inhabitants. The state of Illinois and the third largest city in the USA are suing Trump because they consider the deployment of National Guard members in Illinois at the behest of the US government to be unlawful.
