President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting in August. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/File

It’s so rare for a federal grand jury to reject an indictment that it happened just five times in the fiscal year 2013, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics . Five times. Nationwide. Out of more than 165,000 cases.

That’s 1 out of every 33,000 cases. In percentage terms, it’s 0.003%.

Yet President Donald Trump and his Justice Department have now managed to achieve this remarkable feat in both of his signature attempts at exacting legal retribution against his foes.

First came the grand jury rejecting 1 of 3 charges against former FBI Director James Comey in September — apparently the most significant charge — and only narrowly agreeing to bring the other two. Then the indictm

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