If the ongoing New York criminal trial against former President Donald Trump has often seemed to you like a circus — something straight out of a banana republic — don’t worry, your perception is not wrong. The case is a circus.
From the start, the case was nothing but a transparent political persecution by Democrats of the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential candidate.
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