The rule of law has taken a beating in America over the past few years, and continued this week with former President Trump’s ongoing repetition of his big lie that he won the 2020 election and former Trump aide Steve Bannon’s defiance of a valid subpoena from the United States Congress. But in the midst of this flogging, an amazing thing happened on Monday: Trump sat for four hours and answered questions in a deposition taken under oath and under the pain and penalty of perjury.