When Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Donald Trump last April, the case drew some derision. Prosecuting a former President over hush-money payments to a porn star seemed trivial, critics said, and relied on a legal technicality to bump the charges up to felonies. Given that three other cases were targeting Trump for trying to overthrow the 2020 election and refusing to return national-security secrets, Bragg’s case, the first criminal indictment of a former President in U.S. history, seemed like weak sauce.
But after nine months
