It's never easy, or necessarily possible, to figure out who's winning in Donald Trump's tangles with the law. That's because the rule of law is based on the principle that everyone follows the rules — which may be ungainly, flawed, unfairly and unevenly enforced and all the rest of it, but in theory apply to all parties equally — and the rule of Trump is based on the principle that there are no rules, or at least that he gets to pick and choose which rules to follow, which to ignore and which to reverse-engineer to suit his own interests.
Consider this week — well, consider any given week of the last few hundred, honestly. But in this particular week, Trump appeared to worsen his legal troubles by way of an unasked-for confession in what was supposed to be a friendly interview with onetime Fox News star Megyn Kelly (how does one describe her now?), and also launched a vigorous counterattack against not one but two of the judges slated to preside over major Trump-centric court cases.
