Devlin Barrett and Mike Schmidt Mistake the Fox in the Henhouse for a Guard Puppy - emptywheel

Devlin Barrett and Mike Schmidt Mistake the Fox in the Henhouse for a Guard Puppy - emptywheel

I’m used to Mike Schmidt ignoring Trump’s weaponization of DOJ against his rivals during the first term. I’m used to Devlin Barrett credulously writing down propaganda that right wing law enforcement sources tell him to write down as if it were true. But this, from the two of them, is a remarkable exercise in disinformation in service of a weaponized investigation. They describe that a fox is in the hen house, but are so ignorant, naive, or corr…