FROM ‘IMPENETRABLE’ TO IMPROBABLE: In the face of withering criticism from members of his own party, President Trump is backtracking on the anti-hacking plan he discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, an idea Sen. Lindsey Graham dismissed as “not the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard, but it’s pretty close.” A little more than 24 hours after tweeting “Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded,” Trump tweeted an update in which he said, “The fact that President Putin and I discussed a Cyber Security unit doesn’t mean I think it can happen. It can’t.”  

In response to the original idea, Trump’s bipartisan critics seemed to be scrambling to come up with the best version of the old “fox guarding the hen house” analogy.