100 yards from the courthouse door, Ice T was filming the most recent episode of Law & Order.
The US rapper and actor is the star of the long-running prison/courtroom TV sequence that is constructed its popularity on credible characters and plausible plot strains.
Contrast that with the drama unfolding down the road, ‘Donald Trump – the Criminal Years’. It might solely be factual – what scriptwriter would make that up?
The plot twists are but to play out on the courthouse in decrease Manhattan and have now been pushed again by at the least 24 hours.
An worldwide media pack standing to consideration dropped its shoulders mid-morning as information emerged that the grand jury had been given the time without work.
Cameras had spent the morning recording the comings and goings – the attorneys, the police, the silhouetted prisoners in blacked-out buses, the on a regular basis manoeuvres of prison justice because it awaits a really totally different day – Donald’s day, in court docket.
The longer the delay earlier than an indictment and subsequent arraignment listening to, the extra the parallel political combat will achieve traction.
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Republican allies (in no way all within the celebration) amplify Trump’s accusations of a political witch-hunt and complain of a weaponisation of the justice system.
Democrats counter that no-one ought to be above the regulation.
In the meantime, there are few protests. On Tuesday, one lady protested alone outdoors Trump Tower, parroting his slogan: “Take our nation back!”
If the general public help seems skinny on the bottom, the money backing is not.
After posting on his social media platform final weekend that he was to be arrested, Trump pulled in additional than $1.5m in fund-raising.
As the court docket course of was knocked past Wednesday, he posted an assault on Florida Governor Ron De Santis, a possible rival for the Republican presidential nomination.
Trump referred to as him an “average” governor with nice public relations.
In fact, De Santis hasn’t wanted good PR to barter a path by way of the difficulties of Donald Trump – that is for Trump himself to do.
Rivals for the Republican nomination have, conspicuously, condemned ‘inequal justice’ whereas stopping in need of supporting Trump.
And but the extra he’s portrayed as a sufferer of injustice, the extra his core help rally spherical him.
Politically, presidentially, the query for the grievance candidate, past the bottom, might be: how a lot grief is an excessive amount of?
But there’s the small matter of a court docket motion, or 4, earlier than all that.
Source: information.sky.com”