When President Donald Trump lambastes Federal Reserve Chair Jerome “Jay” Powell, in an attempt to blame him for GM’s plant-closing decision (revealing Trump’s economic promises to be empty), Republicans are silent. When national security adviser John Bolton declines to listen to the audio recording of Washington Post Global Opinions columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder for the preposterous reason that he doesn’t speak Arabic (are there no translators?) and declines to make CIA Director Gina Haspel — who has heard the tape — available to brief lawmakers, Republicans are silent.