NY AG Letitia James says 'we're ready to fight back' in spirited comments after Trump wins presidency

New York Attorney General Letitia James vowed to “fight back” as she and Gov. Kathy Hochul treated President-elect Donald Trump as an enemy in a controversial post-election press conference on Wednesday.

A defiant Hochul announced that she had founded an “Empire State Freedom Initiative” to prepare to fight “political and regulatory threats” from the new Trump administration.

The Democratic governor said she was willing to work with Trump but spent much of her time talking about preparing for a political and legal war.

“You try to harm New Yorkers or roll back their rights, I will fight you every step of the way,” Hochul said during the news conference in her Manhattan office.”

She treated Trump's victory — he won both the electoral and popular vote nationwide and performed stronger in blue New York — like a funeral.

“New Yorkers will persevere over the next four years,” she said.

James, meanwhile, said her office was “preparing” for a possible second Trump administration.

“I am prepared to do everything in my power to ensure that our state and our nation do not go backwards,” she said in a statement. “Together with Governor Hochul, our partners in state and local government, and my colleagues, attorneys general from across the country, we will work every day to defend Americans, no matter what this new administration throws at us. We are ready to fight again.”

Republicans called Hochul's double press conference bizarre and counterproductive.

“Hochul is crazy,” said state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox.

“This doesn’t help New Yorkers. It’s stupid and bizarre,” he said.