Editorial: Trump fired another watchdog. If he’s ever going to be held accountable, voters will have to do it

It’s too soon to say for certain that President Donald Trump’s firing of State Department Inspector General Steve A. Linick was a politically motivated effort to stop Linick from doing his job, but the administration’s record of muzzling watchdogs inspires little confidence that his removal was appropriate. After Trump fired Linick on Friday, saying that he had lost confidence in him, …