repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more.”

"A shocking pattern of illegality..."

Lovely.

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What Tuesday's development indicates is that everything that people believed—and that the Post's David Fahrenthold won a Pulitzer documenting—was true. The Trump Foundation was a massive exercise in essential Trumpism—One For All and All For Me. (Remember when he bought a portrait of himself at a TF charity auction for 10-grand? That was cool.) And, at the end, he went down like the mutt he's always been.

The settlement with Underwood’s office represents a concession by Trump to a state investigation he decried as a partisan attack. The case is one of numerous legal investigations of Trump organizations that have proliferated during his presidency.

Now, getting back to Michael Flynn's day in court, nothing was more amusingecho bubble resounded with it for a few days, and Judge Sullivan finally had had enough. He forced Flynn to say that the whole entrapment business was a play for the cheap seats without an ounce of truth in it, and then he said quite plainly that the no-jail promise had slipped very close to the edge of the table.

"I want to be frank with you, this crime is very serious," Sullivan said. "Not only did you lie to the FBI, you lied to senior officials in the incoming administration...All along, you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security adviser to the President of the United States. That undermines everything this flag over here stands for. Arguably you sold your country