American Greatness
James Black
Aug. 30, 2018
Last week, in an otherwise incisive analysis of the Michael Cohen dumpster fire, National Review’s Andrew McCarthy wrote that it was “inconceivable†that “Cohen’s campaign-finance convictions are a get-Trump ploy.†Oddly, he arrives at this conclusion despite spending much of his piece poking holes in it.
McCarthy tends to turn into a wide-eyed ingénue whenever the subject of prosecutorial misconduct arises. Presumably, this is the result of the false-consensus fallacy that all prosecutors are as ethical as he is and was when he worked in the U.S. Attorney’s office prosecuting terrorists.
In October, he wrote that the infamous Steele dossier must be partly factual because he could not fathom that fellow career prosecutor, James Comey, “would have countenanced an investigation based on nothing.†McCarthy has since acknowledged that is precisely what happened.
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