




On the twelfth he stands on the capitol steps in Lansing and asks Michigan to audit an election it has already counted twice. On the thirteenth he sets out a condition in two sentences: settle 2020, or Republicans will not be voting in 2022 or 2024 — a threat made against his own side. Then the eighteenth, which holds both halves of his position at once. In the morning he files suit against a committee of the Congress to keep the records of his presidency sealed. In the afternoon he sits at the end of a bare table, under oath and on videotape, and answers questions for hours about security guards and a scuffle outside his own tower in 2015. The same man, the same day, on both sides of the table.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 331. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
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