With this column, we will do some musing about a couple of “what ifs?” relating to the Trump era.

I have discussed these with many in the last 10 years or so, wondering what could have happened if these had been addressed.

More and more I noticed how friends and colleagues were depressed, hoping, in vain, that tomorrow will be better than today.

But it was not to be.

In the Trump years, we have not had “one normal day” which is the title of my 2019 book on Trump and, while not wanting to sound self-serving, little did I know how true that would turn out to be.

So, as we concluded the first year of Trump’s second term (January 20) and approach the 11-year anniversary (June 16) of that infamous ride down the golden elevator, I thought it was time to speculate about two “what ifs” that involve the performance of media and the legal community.

Let’s begin with the media.

What if the media had challenged Trump directly on every one of the tens of thousands of lies he has told during the last 11 years? I mean face-to-face and press him — hard — on his falsehoods.

Regrettably, that never — and I use “never” advisedly — happened. Let’s just take a couple of recent examples. One relates to the gut-wrenching fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minnesota.

During a two-hour interview session with Trump, four New York Times correspondents heard the president tell them that the shooting was justified because Good........

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