‘The walls are closing in’: Trump reels from week of political setbacks

It was a terrible seven days, with major developments in investigations of his election lies and the Capitol riot reaching into his inner circle

• House of Trump is crumbling': why the legal net is tightening

The last time Donald Trump heard such hammer blows, they were from renovations at Mar-a-Lago that displeased the former president. But not even that sound would have left his ears ringing like last week's avalanche of bad news that some believe nudged a criminal indictment one step closer.

No single week in the year since Trump left the White House has been as dramatic, or for him as potentially catastrophic, as the one just passed.