Donald Trump smears former adviser with one of his favorite tactics

Donald Trump does not like to be criticized. When he is attacked — or even when he thinks he might have been attacked — he tends to fire back in the same way each time: with smears and vague aspersions. On Thursday, his former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn was the latest recipient of his apparent defamation.

When Cohn stepped down in March from his position as head of Trump’s National Economic Council director, Trump called him a “rare talent̶...