Weary Defenders Face Fresh Worries
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN
MARCH 20, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump began Monday .. by unleashing a blistering Twitter attack on critics who suggested his 2016 campaign colluded with the Russians.
By the afternoon the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, had systematically demolished his arguments in a remarkable public takedown of a sitting president. Even a close ally of Mr. Trump, Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California and the House Intelligence Committee chairman, conceded that “a gray cloud” of suspicion now hung over the White House by the end of the day’s hearings.
The testimony of Mr. Comey and that of Adm. Michael S. Rogers, his National Security Agency counterpart, will most likely enervate and distract Mr. Trump’s administration for weeks, if not longer ...
But .. the obsessiveness and ferocity of Mr. Trump’s pushback against the Russian allegations .. untethered from fact or tact .. is making an uncertain situation worse ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/us/trump-obama-wiretap-comey.html