The outrageousness of Trump’s lawsuit should have yielded no concessions at all from the Justice Department (and the courts may yet throw them out). Why didn’t Cornyn and Tillis get that? Cornyn and Tillis surely understand this. Yet they accepted the warped reality Trump created that he ought to get something out of his $10 billion lawsuit. Cornyn and Tillis’s willingness from the start to allow Trump some of his IRS indemnity showed they were, for no apparent reason, needy for a deal.