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In his Maga heartlands, Trump is a victim not a defendant

In one US, he cuts a diminished, humbled figure. “He seems considerably older and he seems annoyed, resigned, maybe angry,” said broadcaster Rachel Maddow of MSNBC after seeing Donald Trump up close in court. “He seems like a man who is miserable to be here.”

But in the other US – that of Fox News, far-right podcasts and the Maga (Make America Great Again) base – the trial of the former president over a case involving a hush

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