One of those instances that comes to mind was Operation Choke Point where we saw that administration target banks that did business with certain disfavored retailers like pay day lenders and payment processors and disfavored industries like gun sellers and coal producers.
Ratcliffe references Operation Choke Point as an example of political targeting by the Obama administration.
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