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It is Sunday, April of the 28th.

Few days in American politics can compare to what we witnessed last Thursday

when a pair of court proceedings reminded us of the inflection point to which Donald

Trump has brought us as he runs for

president while also facing multiple criminal prosecutions. Let me set the scene for you.

In a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump, the twice impeached four times indicted former president,

who's also the current presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was facing trial for one of his crimes.

In that case, he is accused of falsely or falsifying business records in order to cover up a payment

made to an adult film actress with whom he's alleged to have had an affair.

That payment was to prevent her from going public with the potentially damaging

story just days before the 2016 election, and prosecutors alleged that his actions were in

service of hiding relevant information from voters in those final days of the campaign.

One day prior to that, in a separate matter of election interference, the former president was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in not one, but two cases related to a multi-state effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Meanwhile, about 200 miles away at the U.S. Supreme Court, another one of Trump's

lawyers was arguing before the justices that the former president should be immune from criminal

prosecution for anything he did while in office. In fact, Trump's attorney was forced to concede

that in their team's view,

presidential immunity is so great that a president could get away with staging a military coup

or even ordering the assassination of a political opponent.

If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him,

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