President Trump’s short-tenured national security advisor, Mike Flynn, is under fire from Democrats. They want him prosecuted, and they want it now. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for an “independent investigation” into Flynn on Tuesday, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., suggested that a special prosecutor should be appointed. The two are calling Flynn’s phone calls with the Russian ambassador to the United States a “national security issue.”

Appointing a special prosecutor to handle the Flynn case would be absurd, not to mention quite hypocritical for Democrats. Since Schumer made no similar call for an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s errors that led to national security threats, it’s obvious his call for an investigation into Flynn has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with party politics.