was supported by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation (T.L.), the Academy of Finland (grants 53392 and 34316), the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, the Turku University Foundation, the Juho Vainio Foundation, the Finnish Foundation of Cardiovascular Research, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and the Tampere and Turku University Central Hospital Medical Fund. We would like to acknowledge the International HapMap Consortium for the linkage disequilibrium data. The KORA research platform (KORA: Kooperative Gesundheitsforschung in der Region Augsburg) was initiated and financed by the Helmholtz Zentrum München---National Research Center for Environmental Health, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology and by the State of Bavaria. Part of this work was financed by the German National Genome Research Network (NGFN-2 and NGFNPlus: 01GS0823) and withinPresident Trump listens with German Chancellor Angela Merkel by his side during a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House on March 17. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

On the 60th day of his presidency came the hardest truth for Donald Trump.

He was wrong.

James B. Comey — the FBI director whom Trump celebrated on the campaign trail as a gutsy and honorable “Crooked Hillary” truth-teller — testified under oath Monday what many Americans had already assumed: Trump had falsely accused his predecessor of wiretapping his headquarters during last year’s campaign.

Trump did not merely allege that former president Barack Obama ordered surveillance on Trump Tower, of course. He asserted it as fact, and then reasserted it, and then insisted that forthcoming evidence would prove him right.

But in