The Trump Trials, Vol. 8

This new Proof series—authored by a longtime criminal defense attorney and leading Trump biographer—will unpack recent events in the historic trials of disgraced former president Donald Trump.

(1) Early reporting from both CNN and MSNBC on the nature of the indictments was correct. Both of these major-media outlets reported that they had a source at the courthouse telling them that the unsealed indictments were 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records (a “Class E” felony in New York state, which is the lowest level of felony), but after Trump…