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By this point, the damage was no longer just the indictment itself. The mistake was turning every new development into another reminder that Trump’s political operation, legal strategy, and messaging machine were all trapped in the same accelerating mess.
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House Judiciary Republicans subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz, a former Manhattan prosecutor who had worked on the Trump investigation, as part of a partisan effort to challenge the district attorney’s office. The move showed how quickly Trump’s criminal case was spilling into congressional theater, where allies were now trying to build a counter-narrative that the indictment was politically driven.