The Trump administration has retreated in its attack on The New York Times reporters thanks to its own incompetence. Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One has been a fiasco. “Subpoenas are the last step—not the first step, but the last step,” Subramanian said. The DOJ attorneys admitted to making “inadvertent errors” in their filings to the magistrate judge, according to Lawfare senior editor Anna Bower. US President Donald Trump listens to Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani during a meeting aboard Air Force One in Doha on October 25, 2025.