An unidentified man set himself on fire outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump's trial is currently taking place. CNN reported that the man self-immolated earlier on Friday afternoon, which resulted in first responders trying to extinguish the flames with fire extinguishers and treating him with first aid. At the moment, it is not clear what the man's motivation for setting himself on fire was.
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com As Donald Trump's first criminal trial gets well underway, the "commentariat class" has already made up its mind that Trump will likely escape a conviction — and they're even questioning the legal soundness of the case, a pair of analysts wrote Friday. In a new op-ed from Slate, Dahlia Lithwick and Anat Shenker-Osorio contend that pundits and analysts who are quick to dismiss the case — in which Trump is accused of illegally offering a hush money payment to hide an affair he had with an adult film star before the 2016 presidential election — are making "the category error" that lawyers' opinions about legal cases "is somehow predictive of political and electoral outcomes." Lithwick and Shenker-Osorio point to polls that suggest a guilty verdict in the trial isn't likely to affect the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, and say they only tell a small portion of the story.
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