The events that culminated in the rollout of the Justice Department’s most recent indictment of Donald Trump, on Tuesday, had a familiar ring: a barrage of social-media broadsides and gratuitous insults from the putative defendant, and hours of breathless cable-TV vamping about news that had not yet happened. (“A micro-development, but that’s all we have right now, Jake,” the CNN senior legal correspondent, Paula Reid, told the anchor Jake Tapper at one point.) In the early afternoon, reporters who had staked out the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, in downtown Washington, D.C., announced that the grand jury had left for the day. At 4:41 P.M., Trump made the reveal on his Truth Social account: “I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election o...
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