I don’t care how tall he is or how much he weighs, but I do care if they are treating him preferentially, and deferentially, on the little things.
I get that he has to be treated differently on certain very big things. He’s the ex-president, so he needs a visible security detail around him, and he has to be escorted through a special entrance, and everything around the courthouse has to be sealed off for blocks around, that kind of thing. That makes sense, because he affects the general peace around him just by his very presence, so they have to manage that.
But I don’t think they should let him slide on all the little procedures that every detainee, defendant, etc., must themselves go through, simply because they deem him to be too important to make him bother to do so. I think allowing him to submit his own vital statistics, whereas literally nobody else gets to, would be one example of that. Some folks might be like, big whoop, so what, who cares, right? But I believe if he gets preferential and deferential treatment at that level, they will likely give him such treatment on more and more things, and then he will demand even more special treatment, until he gets across the idea he should be treated especially and visibly well. I think it’s possible if the system is seen to be treating him with obvious deference, that may affect the way the judge and jury see him as well, which may taint how they try him. I think he should be made to go through the same processes that everyone does in exactly the same way, and it should be made clear to the world that’s what’s happening. Justice for all.