



He sets the ledgers side by side — fortunes once poured to a foreign enemy, yet not five billion for the Wall. His old fixer is sentenced and turns against him, and he disowns the man cold: a lawyer who should have known the law himself. A distant court strikes down his predecessor's great health-law and he hails the ruin as a victory. Then, before the cameras, he vows to own the coming shutdown himself — and in the same breath dares the enemy to spare the nation and simply give in.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 183. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
Opening the mailbag…