Trump finds the one ally he won't defend: the one under federal investigation.

…(cont) Four days later, on October 11th, the Justice Department opened a file of its own kind: whether five broadcasters broke antitrust law by jointly halting coverage after CNN, MS Now and Politico were barred from the White House. By October 18th the Guardian was reporting that the department had set aside the practice of political neutrality altogether, with the midterms approaching.

Then, on October 23rd, the BBC confirmed a different kind of file: a Justice Department investigation into Corey Lewandowski, the president's ally, over his role at the Department of Homeland Security. The Guardian called the move rare, a department built this fall to investigate the president's critics instead turning on one of his own.

The New York Times filled in what rare looks like from the inside. Mr. Lewandowski has spent years finding his way back into the president's good graces whenever he fell out of them. This time, the president has not defended him. He has defended his Pentagon chief. He has defended his press secretaries. He has defended his sons. For Mr.

Run the two ledgers side by side, hon. One son collects federal contracts through a venture fund. The other son's father opens him a shipyard partner. An ally with no contract to his name gets a federal investigation, and a president who always has something to say about everyone else has nothing to say about him. The entry that balances isn't friendship. It's the invoice.