So, I think it's one of the bigger mysteries around this case, but those are three possibilities.

TAPPER: Just quickly, if this is true, would it not have been wiser for the congresswoman to have gone to the Biden Justice Department and said, this has happened, and there was a mistake, and I'd like to come clean and pay whatever fine, and then that way this, you know, not left up to the Trump Justice Department? I mean, has that occurred to you?

HONIG: It's a really tricky dilemma that any subject of this type of investigation might have, and indeed she might have fared better under the Biden administration. But, look, it's an important point of all this. There was some investigation, as I think Evan just said, that was started under the Biden administration, reopened under the Trump administration.

So, I think that's going to undermine any argument she may have down the line that this is politically selective and vindictive. But again -- then again, Donald Trump has given her plenty of ammo to argue that she's being singled out for personal reasons. So, that's a battle yet to come.