Donald Trump’s destructive onslaught against the fair administration of justice and his politicization of prosecutorial power continues. That is what dictators do, which is one of the reasons Trump so admires them.

Trump has now fired Erik Siebert as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia for refusing to gin up phony mortgage fraud charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, a top target of Trump. Good for Siebert and bad for the United States.

James, who won a major civil fraud case against Trump for his false valuations of his real estate holdings, has been on the president’s enemy’s list since he returned to the White House.

A Trump hatchet man, Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, made a ludicrous criminal referral of James to

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