Summary From WALL STREET IS READY TO EAT TRUMP’S LUNCH by William D. Cohan @ The Hive @ Vanity Fair, March 23:
In a searing editorial, on March 21, the Journal went nuclear. The editorial board remains baffled why he persists in making his wiretapping claim, despite any evidence that it happened. “Yet the president clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle,” it wrote, “rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims.” The paper noted that the wiretap tweet was also costing Trump politically by handing “his opponents a sword,” which it certainly has. They are using it to help sabotage many of the very policy initiatives—for instance, repealing Obamacare, lowering taxes—that he was supposedly hired to make happen, and which Wall Street enthusiastically anticipated. “All of this continues the pattern from the campaign that Mr. Trump is his own worst political enemy,” the Journal continued. “He survived his many false claims as a candidate because his core supporters treated it as mere hyperbole and his opponent was untrustworthy Hillary Clinton. But now he’s president, and he needs support beyond the Breitbart cheering section that will excuse anything.” He was, the paper, concluded, in danger of becoming a “fake president.”
and here is their title and first paragraph @ Cohan's link:
A President’s Credibility
Trump’s falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad.
March 21, 2017 7:28 p.m. ET
If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him? Would the rest of the world? We’re not sure, which speaks to the damage that Mr. Trump is doing to his presidency with his endless stream of exaggerations, evidence-free accusations, implausible denials and other falsehoods.
