Trump’s Terrible Week
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Pour one out for Donald Trump’s lawyers: Their client has had a miserable week in court, and his legal woes are mounting.
But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
- Mark Leibovich on Trump’s trickle-down-idiocy effect
- The “end” of COVID is still far worse than we imagined.
- Don’t objectify yourself.
On the Defense
Trump’s latest legal setback came last night, when a federal appeals court handed the classified documents seized by the FBI at his Mar-a-Lago estate back to government investigators. In siding with the government, a three-judge panel—including two Trump also rebuked Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed federal judge whose rulings in favor of Trump have led many legal experts to question her impartiality. The lower court had “abused its discretion,” the panel wrote.
