As Donald Trump’s first criminal trial gets well underway, the “commentariat class” has already made up its mind that Trump will likely escape a conviction — and they’re even questioning the legal soundness of the case, a pair of analysts wrote Friday. In a new op-ed from Slate, Dahlia Lithwick and Anat Shenker-Osorio contend that pundits and analysts who are quick to dismiss the case — in which Trump is accused of illegally offering a hush money payment to hide an affair he had with an adult film star before the 2016 presidential election — are making “the category error” that lawyers’ opinio…