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