This week in the saga

Wednesday the story breaks: the prosecutors hold a recording of his own voice, two summers old, waving a secret paper he admits he can no longer declassify. The answer comes back a day later at full volume — election interference, the witch hunt continues — though about the recording itself he says nothing at all. Friday the old courtier is cleared in his own documents matter, and the grievance writes itself. And Monday he roars the question at the storm — how can they possibly charge him? — while the week's last story tells of a drained pool and a flooded room of surveillance servers. In three days, the answer.