President Donald Trump attends a news conference Thursday at the conclusion of his state visit in the United Kingdom. Leon Neal/Getty Images

The White House is justifying President Donald Trump’s increasingly severe retribution campaign as turnabout that’s fair play. The Democrats did this, ipso facto, we should do it right back to them.

“It is not weaponizing the Department of Justice to demand accountability for those who weaponize the Department of Justice,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday.

But the last week has epitomized how Trump has, in fact, gone much further in leveraging the tools of government against his perceived foes.

Trump pushing out the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is a case in point.

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