President Donald Trump and his team seem to think they’ve landed on a silver bullet in their quest to target his enemies and expand his power: alleged mortgage fraud .

In two instances now, the Trump administration has used this allegation to investigate a prominent Democrat who once probed Trump – New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Sen. Adam Schiff .

And in a third instance, Trump is wielding this claim as his justification to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook . (Such a move would further Trump’s longstanding goal of taking more control of the Fed.)

These allegations now form a large share of the administration’s known legal claims against their perceived political enemies, although no criminal charges have been brought against any of them.

But there

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