President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. Samuel Corum/Sipa USA/AP

In one way, it’s a rather frightening precedent for a president to so clearly and directly force the prosecutions of his political foes, as Donald Trump has now done with both former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

(Try as Trump’s allies might, there is no comparing his role in these prosecutions with Joe Biden’s relationship to Trump’s indictments. It’s a far more direct line.)

But in another way, it will at least be instructive.

After spending years trying to force legal peril on his foes and being thwarted by aides who apparently thought better of it, Trump is finally going to be forced to pony up with actual evidence. And he will ha

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