James Hohmann: “Communications professionals are taught from an early age to ‘take out the trash’ — the lingo for releasing bad news when no one is paying attention — on Friday afternoons because everyone is checking out for the weekend. But this afternoon seems particularly ripe for a news dump on topics that have nothing to do with the Russia investigation.”
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