Ok, the first 2 instances are wildly out of context, don't know how much it is the case in the newest case.

The congratulations to Trump were for the appointment of Gail Slater, which he very much agreed to because of Slater's reputation as being "not good for big tech". (Slater did not last long, as expected)

And the "data transfer" to authorities was a legal requirement imposed by the courts of the country they are in (based on "terrorism" charges by the french authorities - for essentially squatting), with no actually doable legal recourse left (as it often is in "terrrorism" cases). No preexisting data was available. They had to wait for the activist to log in, to catch the IP address of the client connecting to the surveilled account in the live system.

Refusing to comply with lawful orders of the country you are seated in can absolutely wreck your shit, and you might even lose control over your infrastructure people depend on.

And had the activist used an VPN to connect to his mailbox, the story would have probably ended there, especially if the VPN had been Proton itself - the injunction was only for the Mailbox, and VPNs are pretty much untouchable regarding surveillance in Switzerland.