Lust, power, politics, money: in court with Donald Trump

Greetings from New York.

There is something incredibly surreal about watching a former president of the United States walk into a courtroom while simultaneously running for the White House and criminally charged.

But there it was: Donald Trump, arguably the world’s best-known political figure, looking almost chastened as he sat in a dreary room on the 15th floor of the New York County Supreme Court as the details of his sex life were laid bare. this week.

As trials go, this case – in which Trump is accused of falsifying business records to cover up an affair before the 2016 election – has all the ingredients of a Hollywood blockbuster: lust, power, politics, money .