After being indicted, Trump flew to New Hampshire, told voters: “They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom.” Added: “They’re not after me, they’re after you and I’m just standing in their way. Right?”

I’m a victim. I fight for you. It’s you they’re really after. I’m standing in their way.

Echoes of an old-fashioned traveling medicine show where hucksters sang out in town squares selling cure-alls (in bottles that looked a lot like whiskey) laced with opium – that cured nothing.