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2 verified reports published on November 16, 2021.
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The day’s theme was simple: when Trump fights, the blast radius often lands closest to Trump. The lawsuits were thinning, the allies were splitting, and the political habit of treating every disagreement as treason was turning even friendly Republicans into targets. That is not a sign of strength. It is what a slow-motion self-own looks like when it wears a red tie.
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A second set of attorneys withdrew from the Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania election lawsuit on November 16, further shredding the legal team behind a case that had already been widely dismissed as a long shot. The retreat underscored how badly Trump’s post-election litigation effort was deteriorating and how hard it was becoming for his side to keep even a coherent legal front together.
Trump had already threatened primary challengers against Republicans who backed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and his earlier attacks on lawmakers who voted to impeach him in January 2021 kept the party’s internal feud alive.