'Lock them up'? Trump turns his attention to enemies of his state

— his first since Attorney General William Barr reported that the president would not be prosecuted for obstruction of justice and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had not established the existence of a conspiracy between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian operatives — Trump listed them by name and occupation."Little pencil-neck Adam Schiff," Trump said of the House Intelligence Committee chairman, who continues to oversee a Russia probe as the president's campaign seeks his resignation or expulsion from Congress."Jerry Nadler," he said, invoking the name of the House Judiciary chairman, who is looking into the obstruction-of-justice allegations for which Mueller, in the still-secret report to Barr, laid out evidence for and against concluding the president had committed criminal conduct."I have beat him many times, and now I have to come here and beat him again," Trump said of the New York Democrat."These people are sick," he continued. They have to be — I am sorry, they have to be accountable."The crowd chanted a solution for that: "Lock them up!"In this moment, as he tries to turn the corner from two years of a special counsel investigation toward eighteen months or so of campaigning for re-election, Trump is using Barr's four-page letter to portray himself and his supporters as the victims of a conspiracy of left-wing "deep state" elitists bent on defeating their movement at any cost to the country."The president is absolutely trying to reinforce the feeing among his allies and surrogates that the media went overboard in its coverage of the Russia investigation, that certain lawmakers were reckless in their claims, and that the investigation itself was flawed in its inception," said Bradley Moss, a Washington lawyer who specializes in national security issues."The problem here is that even if the president has legitimate gripes on one or more of those things, his overly-aggressive commentary is doing nothing but exacerbating the situation," Moss said in a text message.