Trump Finds That Retribution Isn’t Always So Easy NYT | Top Stories By: Michael S. Schmidt and Jonah E. Bromwich 18 December 2025 at 07:00 In some ways, Trump’s broader flexing of power has achieved what he set out to do. But his attempts to push prosecutions of rivals have been far less successful. © Allison Robbert for The New York TimesLetitia James, the New York attorney general.