BY JONAH E. BROMWICH AND DEVLIN BARRETT

New York Times

It has long been President Trump's impulse to tar his enemies with the same accusations they have lobbed at him.

And his Justice Department's criminal case against New York Attorney General Letitia James carries echoes of the civil fraud case she brought against him — albeit at a scale so small that most federal prosecutors would never deign to pursue it.

The indictment, less than a month after Trump publicly exhorted the Justice Department to pursue James, accuses her of violating a mortgage agreement on a Virginia house she purchased in 2020 by using it as a rental property.

The case is a fresh reminder of how the president has taken the Justice Department in hand and directed its prosecutorial powers toward his adversaries. Jam

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