DONALD TRUMP seems to think he can best every challenge by insulting the challenger. It worked splendidly during the presidential campaign. But America’s institutions are not political foes. As an investigation led by Robert Mueller into possible links between Russia and Mr Trump’s presidential campaign grinds on, the president has flung ever more insults in the direction of law enforcement. His actions risk inflicting great damage on the country he leads.
On Twitter, Mr Trump calls the former heads of the FBI and CIA, as well as an ex-director of national intelligence and Democrats on Congress’s intelligence committees, “liars and leakers”. He also claims that “Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicised the sacred investigative process in favour of Democrats and against Republicans.”
The trigger for this outburst is a memo written by Republicans on the House intelligence committee about the surveillance of Carter Page, an oil-and-gas consultant who became a foreign-policy adviser to the...Continue reading
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