Trump says he showed up at his NYC fraud trial to draw media attention to ‘how corrupt it is’

NEW YORK — Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday he wanted to attend his Manhattan fraud trial to draw media attention to how “corrupt” the New York attorney general’s high-stakes case against his family real estate empire is — and then he hit the road. “Why attend? Because I want to point it out to the press, how corrupt it is — ’cause nobody else seems to be able to do it,” Trump said outside the courtroom, railing against the judge and attorney general Letitia James before leaving the courthouse. After he addressed the media, court officials began taking down some of the barriers install...