Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today we look at how the law firm Jones Day, which staffed up the first Trump administration and represented the president and his campaign in a string of lawsuits, has switched sides and the ethical questions that raises. We also dive into the court documents where we find a riff on Trump’s cheeky sign-off phrase, and we get a far-from-straight answer on who came up with the idea for the breakout moment in the State of the Union. …

Noel Francisco came to national prominence as Donald Trump’s first-term solicitor general.