Trump’s Criminal Trial Begins With Vitriol and 42 Questions

After seven years, three tell-all books, two trips to the Supreme Court, and one historic indictment, Donald Trump is finally—officially—the first former American president to stand trial on criminal charges.

For the next two months, Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign will hardly be anything but a courtroom sideshow, as he takes the half-hour drive from his gilded penthouse to Manhattan’s criminal courthouse four days a week and fights for his freedom.

Trump said on Friday that he plans to testify in the upcoming trial, though that’s far from definitive. Trump has repeatedly projected confidence about his legal troubles publicly only to ghost in the courtroom when presented with the opportunity to testify. That was his exact game plan in the original E. Jean Carroll rape defamation case last year.

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