The week of November 26 started out like any other for the Trump administration. One of the president‘s signature lies blew up in his face. The First Lady’s White House Christmas decorations resembled a promo for the sequel to The Shining. Donald Trump claimed his “gut” knows more about monetary policy than the Federal Reserve, and threatened to f--k over Americans to get back at a company that double-crossed him. Donny Jr. told voters to support an unrepentant racist for office. Ivanka Trump said there’s nothing wrong with sending hundreds of e-mails about government business from a private account if a Trump is the one doing it. The lawyers for Paul Manafort, the corrupt former chairman of the Trump campaign, fed confidential information about the special prosecutor’s investigation to the president’s lawyers. All in all, pretty standard stuff! That is, until Thursday, which brought a whole bunch of surprises that the president is clearly having some difficulty coping with.

First, his former lawyer-slash-hush-money emissary Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about his involvement with Russia, specifically his work on a Trump real-estate deal in Moscow. In a court filing, Robert Mueller wrote that Cohen admitted to speaking with Russian officials about Trump Tower Moscow well into 2016, and briefed Donald Trump himself about all of it. That, of course, is a problem given the president’s highly contradictory statements on the matter. In fact, some believe it may bring the special prosecutor is “one step closer to showing links between Donald Trump’s business interests in Russia and his conduct as a candidate for president.”

Also on Thursday, police in Germany raided Deutsche Bank, i.e. Trump’s sugar mama. While the investigation appears to be related to the Panama Papers and allegations that the bank helped customers create offshore accounts to avoid taxes, and not its favorite client or a separate, giant money-laundering probe, Trump biographer Timothy L. O’Brien points out:

Deutsche’s troubles are going to be President Donald Trump’s troubles . . . What’s likely now . . . is that Trump’s dealings with Deutsche—which have represented, at a minimum, a serious and long-standing financial conflict for him given the influence he wields over law enforcement and financial regulation as president—are about to draw greater scrutiny.