On a brisk Monday morning in early May, journalists from around the world gathered in a shabby Manhattan courtroom to find out whether Donald Trump would be sent to jail.
It was a moment that encapsulated the ways the US justice system has struggled to bring Trump to heel in this, the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president. The hush money case, as it is known, has lasted more than a month, and a verdict could come as soon as this week. Those hoping for new details about the former president’s conduct were, mostly, disappointed. Even Daniels’ recollection of swatting the real-estate mogul’s backside with a rolled-up magazine before their alleged 2006 tryst had been extensively covered in books, articles and a documentary series before she repeated it on the witness stand.
“Trump has always been very good at figuring out those workarounds and coming just up to the line,” says Cheryl Bader, an associate professor of law at Fordham University, of his use of elected officials to fill the airwaves with attacks on the case.The defendant seized on the fact that “people have a First Amendment right to criticise the system”, she adds.
He even set up a perfect photo-op for the tabloid press by buying pizzas for firefighters on his way home one evening.
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