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A dispatch from Donald Trump’s courtroom

A tale of two struggles

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in  Manhattan state court in New York.
Photograph: AP
|New York

Every trial involves two struggles, wrote Janet Malcolm, a shrewd observer of the American courtroom. One is engrossing, the other is stultifying, and both have been on full display at Donald Trump’s trial in a Manhattan courtroom in this past week.

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