Trump Allies Drag Watchdog for Pointing Out Trump Broke Law

A federal watchdog report on Thursday found that the Trump administration illegally withheld security assistance to Ukraine, and some Republicans quickly settled on a strategy in response: try to discredit the watchdog.

To the extent that Republicans in the administration and on Capitol Hill have responded to the report, few addressed its substantive findings that the Trump White House violated a federal statute when it held up military aid to the U.S. ally. Instead, some have accused the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan agency that issued the report, of being...