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Donald Trump appeared in court on Monday, April 15, but people immediately noticed that his family, including his wife, Melania Trump, were nowhere in sight. “I have rarely seen a defendant facing trial alone with no family, at least one person, in the courtroom for him,” a former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Joyce Vance wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “It’s a sad commentary for a former president with four grown children & a wife, all of whom seem to have deserted him in the moment.” Other people weighed in on the ex-president, 77, being left on his own. One person wrote, “Cons…