Tuesday was the first day of the first trial to arise from the special counsel’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. The defendant, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, faces unrelated federal charges of financial fraud that could send him to prison for years.
And yet, as the drama unfolded in Alexandria, some observers on the Internet seemed less interested in the intricacies of bank fraud than in that $15,000 ostrich jacket.
