The Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges, detailed publicly on Tuesday, may never put Trump in jail, but, after a grand jury indictment, they already have resulted in making him a criminal defendant. Even though the charges do not include conspiracy, the sense of an illegal plot hangs over the indictment, as David Corn of Mother Jones observed: “The big narrative is that Trump allegedly conspired to break election law with the catch and kill operation that embodied three episodes: the doorman, Playboy model Karen McDougal, and Stormy Daniels.” The first episode had to do with a Trump Tower doorman’s story (apparently false) of an illegitimate child fathered by Trump; the McDougal story told of Trump’s longterm affair with the model; and Stormy Daniels, as we all know by now,…