Nearly twenty years ago, long before she was in office, a current Democratic U.S. senator wanted to buy a vacation home. She used an online mortgage broker based in North Carolina. On her loan application, she listed her own estimate of what her primary residence was worth. She got the loan and ultimately paid it back early.

Fast forward to today. Would it be wrong for the Department of Justice to start examining that loan application with an eye toward civil action against her? What about the North Carolina attorney general? Does the answer change if the attorney general ran on a campaign hinting that she was going “to go get” the now-senator?

To be clear, the person described above, to my knowledge, does not exist. But let's say she did. Would any investigation by the next Trump administration, or by an assertive state attorney general, constitute "revenge?" Or would it simply be applying the exact same standard to Democrats that they have applied to Donald Trump?

The hypothetical described above is substantively almost identical to the civil action against Trump in New York that resulted in a judgement against him of nearly half a billion dollars.

The left has been falling all over itself at the prospect of what a second Trump administration might look like. They claim that Trump will be seeking........

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