Defendant Trump.

The last time I went into a courtroom and watched a politician defending himself against a criminal indictment was 1987, when I went to New Haven to watch the trial of Stanley Friedman, who had been leader of the Democrat(ic) Party in The Bronx and ended up doing a four-year stretch for the usual assortment of corruptions which always came with his job.

I had been on the staff of the New York State Assembly as Public Information…