Wall Street Journal Editorial Harshly Rebukes Trump -
By SYDNEY EMBERMARCH 22, 2017
The editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is known for its conservative tone,
but an editorial the newspaper published online Tuesday night would stand out even in the pages of its left-leaning peers.
The editorial, headlined “A President’s Credibility,” criticized President Trump for “rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims” — namely, repeating an unsupported allegation by a Fox News commentator
that British intelligence had wiretapped Mr. Trump on behalf of the Obama administration.
The editorial was an extraordinarily harsh rebuke of President Trump, calling him “his own worst political enemy” and asserting
that he was damaging his presidency “with his seemingly endless stream of exaggerations, evidence-free accusations, implausible denials and other falsehoods.”
In particular, the editorial board pointed to Mr. Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that former President Barack Obama had tapped his phones.
The paper’s editorial and opinion writers have been critical of Mr. Trump in the past, although the language of this editorial,
which ran in Wednesday’s paper, seemed intended to remind the president to focus on his stated goals rather than distractions.