Stinging defeats exposed Trump is 'weak' — and 'terrified': legal experts

Trump suffered a humiliating week of defeats that exposed cracks in his iron-fisted façade, legal experts said Friday.

This week, President Donald Trump "suffered a string of defeats that exposed the real limits of his power at home and abroad," noted Slate's Marc Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick on Friday.

For starters, the Justice Department threw in the towel on its illegal bid to install loyalist Lindsey Halligan as U.S. attorney after a judge delivered a scorching rebuke, calling...