The Silly Rhetoric Cancels Out

Bob Woodward’s claim, in a forthcoming book, that Donald Trump may have engaged in “as many as” seven phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office is so thinly based as to command little confidence.

An aide to Mr. Trump who goes unnamed is apparently the source of such speculation, based on a single instance of having been shooed from Mr. Trump’s presence so Mr. Trump could—or so he claimed—take a call from the Russian president.