President Donald Trump announced deals Friday with five law firms that will allow them to avoid the prospect of punishing executive orders and require them to together provide hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of free legal services for causes his administration says it supports.

Five more law firms have struck deals with President Donald Trump to avoid punitive executive orders against them, ramping up a concerning trend of firms caving to the president’s will. The deals, which Trump shared on social media Thursday,

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting another large law firm, this time Susman Godfrey, on accusations of weaponizing the U.S. legal system.