In arguments about Presidential immunity, the conservative Justices, who avoided mentioning Trump, made clear that they are less concerned with holding him accountable than with shielding former Presidents from retribution.
At his criminal trial, the ex-President has to sit there while potential jurors, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses, and even his own lawyers talk about him as a defective, impossible person.
Donald Trump has spent years arguing that mail-in voting is fraudulent and corrupt. Now the Republican National Committee, which sees mail-in voting as essential, must persuade his base to embrace it.
At the ex-President’s criminal trial, where Trump has been reprimanded for intimidating a potential juror, and a man self-immolated outside, it has been challenging to find twelve people willing to sit in the jury box.
A back-room deal between the former President, his then lawyer, and the C.E.O. of American Media plays a central role in the criminal felony charges he faces in Manhattan.
Manhattan prosecutors have argued that the Stormy Daniels case—the first criminal trial of a former President in American history—is about much more than hush money. And legal experts believe that a conviction is likely.