Trump’s Other Jury Is the American Voter: Timothy L. O’Brien

“They have no case,” Donald Trump advised Tuesday morning, standing outside a Manhattan courtroom where he was being tried on charges that he committednearly three dozen felonies. “There’s no crime.”

About an hour later, Trump’s lawyers rested their defense. They called only two witnesses during the trial; prosecutors called 20. And Trump, who had boasted he would testify, never took the witness stand.

But Trumpistas offered spirited support for the former president on sidewalks outside the courthouse. Donald Trump Jr. slagged the proceedings as “rigged” while attacking the daughter of the judge presiding over the case — essentially helping ...