The crowd at Syracuse's convention centre was already loud when Donald Trump turned on the woman he has spent two years treating as a personal enemy. What followed was not a legal argument but a taunt, aimed at the official who now holds the fate of seven accused men in her hands.
Trump told supporters that on election day they should round on both Governor Kathy Hochul and 'that disgusting Letitia dog,' before reaching for the catchphrase that made him a television star. 'She's a dog. You're fired. Get the hell out of here, you're fired. They're corrupt,' he said of New York Attorney General Letitia James.