The Stossel TV Studio is just a block from Trump Tower.

The day of the big indictment, noisy helicopters hovered, with sidewalks pointlessly blocked by the usual politics/media excess: too many barricades manned by too many bored police officers.

The predicted “big demonstration!” and “possible violence” weren’t visible.

Donald Trump left for the courthouse around 1 p.m. to turn himself in.

He was booked and fingerprinted at the courthouse.

He then pled not guilty to the 34-count charge of falsifying records to hide hush money payments.

Presidents should not be above the law, but neither should they face politically motivated charges.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg campaigned on opposing Trump, bragging, “I have sued Trump more than a hundred times!”

He suggested he would be the best choice to get Trump before he even saw the evidence.

That’s just wrong. Federal prosecutors did see the evidence and decided against charging Trump.

Using campaign funds to pay someone to keep silent about sex may well violate the rules, but most campaign-finance rules are useless, and no serious person thinks this case would ever be brought against anyone other than Trump.

This is a slippery slope to banana republic.
On the other hand, Trump definitely is a horrible person.

In his real-estate business, he cheated the little people, cleverly using our slow and expensive justice system to avoid paying what he owed.

As president, he was unpresidential and childish.

He’s vain, selfish and mean.

He doesn’t read or listen to advice from smart people, and he lies again and again.