From a Washington Post analysis by Dan Balz headlined “Donald Trump, a tawdry case, and a nation still mired in his chaos”:

From the moment he walked down the golden escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, Donald Trump has been the man the world could not stop watching. So he was again Tuesday, a day that epitomized the perverse fascination with the former president and the degree to which he has debased the high office he once held.