US Politics
Marion McKeone: Isolated and diminished, Donald Trump cuts a lonely figure in court
Neither the former president’s wife, children or in-laws have turned up to support him at his trial in Manhattan
It was a tale of two very different courthouses in America’s political and financial capitals, as separate legal dramas played out last week.
The US supreme court, a temple of marble, mahogany and velvet, is a building of singular magnificence. The dingy, claustrophobic interior of the sprawling Manhattan criminal courts building, by contrast, exudes an enervating mix of tension and bureaucratic indifference.
The cases playing out in both locations are historic in their own way, ...
