As significant as the events inside a lower Manhattan courtroom this past month have been, with the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president, perhaps more significant is what has been happening on the streets outside: nothing.
No rioting. No violence. Not even the hint of civil war.
Despite dire warnings from Donald Trump and some of his allies that prosecutors in New York and elsewhere would trigger mayhem if they dared charge him with a crime, so far at least, his trial has taken place with virtually no protest at all.
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“Look at the New York Times polling,” said Mike Davis, a former Senate staff lawyer who has become a favorite legal voice in Trump’s orbit, when asked what happened to the massive protests Trump had called for. “That’s what happened.”
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Davis, who argues that all four of the indictments are illegitimate, agrees: “Wait until they try to imprison Trump.”
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