Revenge is a dish best served as cold as the Iowa day in January 2024 when Donald Trump set a course that ended with the indictment Thursday of another of his perceived political enemies.

Trump fulminated at a rally in Sioux Center about the multimillion-dollar civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against him, his adult sons and the Trump Organization.

“How would you like to be me? Do you think my life is any fun?” Trump moaned to his crowd, before declaring James should be “arrested and punished accordingly.”

Twenty-one months on, Trump’s handpicked prosecutor secured an indictment against James — weeks after the president listed the New York AG in an angry social media post to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding charges.

The new bombshell came only a day after former FBI chief James Comey appeared in court to be arraigned — another case against a Trump foe. Comey has pleaded not guilty to the two charges: providing false statements and obstructing a congressional proceeding

It requires a staggering suspension of disbelief not to see the brace of indictments as the latest step in Trump’s retribution tour. The Justice Department, which the president long complained was weaponized against him, is now openly a tool in his bid for political vengeance. Sometimes it’s hard to fathom that this is taking place in the United States, once the global standard for justice and democracy.

Trump isn’t even hiding what he’s doing — the evidence is in the Truth Social post of September 20, add