There were signs that the friction of legal challenges and attempts to peel off Republicans slowed Trump down this week.

What was supposed to be a filing arguing against keeping a log of all contacts that Tish James' prosecutors have with journalists turned into a complaint that prosecutors would be asked to keep their communications at all.

Judge Michael Nachmanoff has seemingly punted the dispute over whether and if so how the loaner AUSAs prosecuting Jim Comey can have access to privileged discussions he had years ago with Dan Richman. But the punt likely has the effect of giving him much of what he wants.

In an attempt to do a Twitter Files dump on Jack Smith's January 6 investigation, Chuck Grassley exposed very personal details of the far right political establishment, in the process identifying people whose role in all this was previously unknown.

Among the things Trump's DOJ excised from the sentencing memo of Tayler Taranto yesterday is Trump's own role, by doxing Barack Obama, in getting Taranto to stalk Obama's neighborhood.