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Inside the surrender: How Trump forced an elite law firm to 'bend the knee'
Trump Didn’t Just Bully Law Firms. He Exposed Their Price.The Real Power Was Never in the MemoDonald Trump did not need a legal victory to get what he wanted. He needed institutions willing to flinch. Paul Weiss had the money, prestige, and legal knowledge to resist an executive order the Times describes as widely seen as illegal. Instead, leadership chose a deal, and that choice became a signal to the rest of the corporate legal world: pressure works when the target is already organized around fear, profit, and status.This is the core fact the story reveals. Trump held the coercive power…
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