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Capitulation to Trump turns out to be a losing strategy — again
Trump’s Legal Extortion Machine Eats Its Own ClientsThe Bargain Was Never RealNine prestigious Big Law firms paid nearly $1 billion and surrendered professional integrity in the hope that surrender would buy peace with the Trump administration. The source material shows the result plainly: it did not. The firms did not secure stability; they taught the White House that intimidation works.Power Sat With Trump, Not the FirmsThe actual institutional power in this story sits with Trump and the machinery around him, especially the Justice Department and Boris Ephsteyn, his personal senior counsel…
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