For decades, Donald Trump excelled at navigating New York’s institutions. This week, he was legally outmanoeuvred in the city that knows him best.
On Thursday, a Manhattan judge dismissed allegations of election interference from Trump’s defence team, setting a criminal trial in the “hush money” case in the middle of primary season on March 25 — the first time in US history that a former president will be in the dock.
A day later, a court across the street ordered Trump and his businesses to pay at least $355mn for committing persistent fraud by vastly overstating the value of his real estate empire, tearing apart the former president’s carefully curated image as a savvy businessman in the process.
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