Letitia James now reaps what she had sown — so spare us the faux outrage

Democrats sound like pull-string talkie dolls as they line up to tremble their lower lips and cry about what Awful Orange Man is doing to their beloved Attorney General Letitia James.

It only took about five minutes after the announcement of her federal mortgage-fraud indictment for Dems near and far to wring their handkerchiefs about the injustice of it all.

“No one should be surprised that Donald Trump is employing fascist tactics,” fretted mayoral wannabe Zohran Mamdani.

“Prosecuting his opponents, weaponizing the federal government, and attacking the very fabric of our democracy.”

“Keep your corrupt, grubby, abusive hands off Tish James, Donald Trump!” squeaked city Comptroller Brad Lander.

Pot, have you met the kettle?

We have some concerns here, but please: Tish James set the pattern that Democrats now charge President Trump and the Justice Department with following.

In her 2018 run for attorney general, she indicated that bankrupting Trump would be one her top priorities.

“I’ve got my eyes on Trump Tower,” she smirked during her campaign.

“We need to focus on Donald Trump, we need to follow his money,” she said.

And: “I look forward to going into the office of attorney general, every day, suing him, and then going home.”

The very night James won, she announced she would “be shining a bright light into every dark corner of his real estate dealings, and every dealing, demanding truthfulness at every turn.”

And that’s exactly what she did.

Based on no complaint or hint of injury to anyone, James used the power of her office to dig through years of Trump Organization business records.

She ginned up a case alleging that Trump inflated the value of assets he used as collateral for loans — even though his lender had been satisfied with the estimates, lent him the money and was repaid in full.

Her civil prosecution of Trump was entirely political and conducted under color of law.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg similarly weaponized his office to invent a criminal case against Trump.

(Actually, he initially declined to do so; maybe someday the world will learn what pressures made him change his mind.)

He turned private business records from at worst misdemeanors into felonies with a contorted bank-shot into unrelated federal laws.

So it’s rich to hear local Democrats vow to “protect Tish James” from what they are calling an “unprecedented” abuse of power.

Sorry, not only is it not unprecedented — it was you who set the precedent, just a year or two ago.

We have no desire to see America descend into banana-republic politics, where the loser of every election faces prosecution by the winner.

By all means, let us avoid an endless cycle of tit-for-tat political show trials.

But let no one pretend that it’s not obvious who started this in the first place.