The White House hunter is becoming the hunted – and for good reason.
What began as a probe of whether Russia colluded in the outcome of the 2016 presidential election has devolved into some members of the team doing the probing being revealed as biased or, at best, as anything but impartial.
Suddenly, Democrats who saw the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller as a way to nail President Donald Trump – but have been stunned at the lack of evidence – don’t want to talk about it.
And calls – the Wall Street Journal and a CNBC columnist among them – are increasing for the special counsel to step down or a special prosecutor to be appointed to look into conflicts of interest between the FBI and the Justice Department.
We believe an investigation into any Russian meddling in our national election was warranted, but we’re not surprised that partisans became – and are – involved. Remember that most of the calls for such an investigation came out of the shock and awe that Trump was elected president, from the bitter hate the result engendered in the losing side and from the cries it couldn’t have been possible for Hillary Clinton to lose without something nefarious being involved.