Washington DC - Letitia James, the New York attorney general who successfully prosecuted President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty on Friday to bank fraud charges.

James, one of three prominent Trump critics to be hit with criminal charges in recent weeks, entered the plea at an arraignment in a federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, Fox News and CNN said.

The presiding judge set a trial date of January 26.

James faces one count of bank fraud and a second count of making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a property she purchased in Virginia in 2020.

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The case against James was brought one day after another Trump foe, former FBI director James Comey, pleaded not guilty to charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding.

John Bolton, who served as Trump's national security advisor before becoming an outspoken critic of the Republican president, was charged last week with mishandling classified information.

He has also pleaded not guilty.

The cases against James and Comey were filed by Trump's handpicked US attorney, Lindsey Halligan, after the previous prosecutor resigned, saying there was not enough evidence against them.

James has rejected the charges as "baseless" and said they are "nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system."

"The president's own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution," she said when the charges were filed.