Things worth keeping

Duringa discussion at Goodenough College in London, a young American couple loudly held forth. They were due to fly home to Duluth, Minnesota, and were asked about the political situation.

- CHARLOTTE GRIMSHAW

The young woman didn't follow politics”, she said, but she thought Donald Trump was being unfairly targeted. All he’d done was make errors with his tax returns.

Questioned by an elderly and slightly scandalised Canadian, the young woman revealed she didn’t know about Trump’s indictments and upcoming fraud and criminal trials. She hadn't heard a judge’s recent statement that a New York jury had found as a fact that Trump raped the writer E Jean Carroll. She had no idea he'd received a target letter from the Special Counsel relating to the January 6 riots, and was likely be charged with election tampering, or that he could be indicted for racketeering in Georgia, all imprisonable offences.