After three weeks of proceedings at a courthouse in lower Manhattan, it continues to puzzle me that no one appears to have sufficiently inquired why Donald Trump is a daily fixture at the event. The reason for the puzzlement is that he does not have to be there.
Of course, it has been widely reported that the court has required his presence. And Trump has repeatedly complained in his press-covered monologues offered at the end of each day’s proceedings that he has been ordered to be there instead of campaigning for President or even to attend his son’s high school graduation. But the truth is that whether he attends the trial is HIS choice.
