As Donald Trump’s New York trial was going through the process of selecting jurors, the former president offered a familiar criticism of the situation.
“They want to keep me off the campaign trail,” he insisted, referring to his perceived oppressors. The trial wasn’t a function of alleged illegality that a grand jury determined should result in an indictment. It was instead, as Trump baselessly asserts, a top-down push by national Democrats to keep Trump from running for president.
