Shortly after dozens of felony charges were rolled out against former President Donald Trump by the Democratic District Attorney in Manhattan a little over a year ago, I reviewed the case and concluded, "the indictment reeks."  At the time, my initial impression boiled down to this: "[The case] is widely and rightly seen as a profoundly feeble case, with even the New York Times conceding that the legal theory behind it rests on a novel, 'untested,' and 'risky' bank shot, requiring a convoluted effort to upgrade a possible misdemeanor into a low-level felony -- all spearheaded by a partisan ideologue who's notorious for downgrading criminal charges. Given the reality that the feds looked at this exact same set of facts and declined to pursue charges, even as they're coming after Trump from other angles, says it all."  I continued, "this is a deep blue city prosecutor weaponizing the law against a prominent member of the opposing party.  It's an abuse of office.  A former president has never been indicted in this country.  This is very much not the way to make that history."  Flash forward to last week, and I added additional commentary about how the trial is going: