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For Trump, this was the kind of day that turns a documents mess into a documents trap: the more the defense tried to wall off the record, the more the record seemed to point back at him. The legal cost was immediate, and the political cost was obvious. More trouble was coming.
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A federal judge ruled that prosecutors had met the crime-fraud standard for additional testimony from Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran, a major blow to the former president’s effort to keep the classified-documents probe behind attorney-client privilege. The ruling made clear that the government believed Trump’s own legal handling of the subpoena fight could be part of the alleged wrongdoing.