If irony won voters, the left would have them in spades. After all, the same Democrats who were quick to ignore Hillary Clinton’s reckless disdain for security rules are now claiming that Trump’s appointees pose a national security risk for being too successful in the private sector.

According to commentators on the left, various business dealings and relationships, some of which happen to be overseas, raise foreign influence concerns that disqualify Trump appointees from obtaining security clearances. Such claims are made with authoritative pronouncement as “fact,” yet they evince a fundamental lack of understanding about how the security clearance process actually works.