The GOP’s all-out assault on justice

The following commentary by Dana Milbank was psoted on the Washington Post website December 8, 2017:

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)

Thursday was Pearl Harbor Day, the anniversary of one of the deadliest attacks on American soil and perhaps the most unifying day in American history.

This year some of us marked Pearl Harbor Day by attacking America from within.

For five hours on Thursday, President Trump’s partisans delivered a reckless and sustained attack on the FBI and the special counsel. They amplified Trump’s claim that the FBI’s “reputation is in Tatters — worst in History” and that Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia probe, which has already secured guilty pleas from two Trump campaign officials and the indictments of two more, is part of a system that is “rigged,” “phony,” “dishonest” and using a “double standard.” Continue reading “The GOP’s all-out assault on justice”