Donald Trump during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, January 7, 2025.Evan Vucci/AP

Donald Trump has won. He is set to be inaugurated on January 20, and he has convinced many Americans not only that his attempt four years ago to carry out a self-coup is not disqualifying, but that mentioning it now is kind of gauche.

Everyone feels they know what happened on January 6. It was on TV. So were the January 6 committee hearings. Special Counsel Jack Smith charged Trump in 2023 for four crimes related to his effort to subvert the 2020 election and revealed new information about Trump’s alleged crimes in a superseding indictment in October. There isn’t much left to learn.

The same, to a lesser extent, goes for Smith’s charges against Trump for obstructing government efforts to recover classified documents he lifted from the White House and the Trump’s Friday sentencing in New York following his

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