Trump’s Firing of State Department Inspector General Is Just the Latest In a Rolling Purge

7:07pm PDT - May 18th, 2020    eliot engel - Time

When President Donald Trump fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on May 15, it wasn’t the first time he took aim in recent weeks at the work of a government watchdog. It wasn’t even the second time. In the last six weeks, Trump has fired or r…