WHAT DEMOCRATS WANT OUT OF THE TRUMP TRIAL. Former President Donald Trump is back in a Manhattan courtroom after a Wednesday break. On the way to court Thursday morning, Trump stopped at a construction site where he received an enthusiastic welcome from workers chanting, “USA! USA! USA!” That just happened to occur the morning after President Joe Biden received the endorsement of the North America’s Building Trades Unions leadership in Washington. While Biden met with the bigwigs, Trump felt the love of the hard hats. As with Trump’s visit to a Harlem bodega last week, the stop-by was a planned event — these things don’t happen by accident. But it showed that even as he stands trial, Trump can work in a campaign event before court convenes. 

It’s obviously a limited sort of campaigning, with Trump confined to New York City while Biden travels to campaign in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and other key states. But at least New York is the world’s media capital and everything Trump does there will be seen.