But on Monday, his diminished reality as a criminal defendant will become clear in humbling fashion during opening statements in his first criminal trial.
The process, known as a Sandoval hearing, offered the ex-president a glimpse of personal and unflattering revelations that the trial could dredge up.
The political case against the prosecutions was laid out by South Dakota Gov.
But Noem rehearsed a political argument that Trump and his associates will be seeking to land as the trial goes ahead.
But the deeply consequential political and personal stakes for the former president will become even clearer when the first trial begins for real on Monday.
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