Bob Franken: Swamp Creatures

"If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with bulls--t." That's just one of the rules of the Washington Swamp. A case in point is the statement from Marc Kasowitz, the New York attorney who has long represented private citizen Donald Trump in his various shady dealings, and who now has brought his hired gun to the really dark corners of the new Trump presidency.

When James Comey, the former FBI director fired last month by Trump, testified about his dealings with the chief executive (who came across as The Godfather), Kasowitz managed to latch onto a minor point and claim: "...