Trump has vowed to free Jimmy Lai. A Hong Kong court is about to decide the media mogul’s fate

Days before winning his second presidential term, Donald Trump made a bold promise: if he returned to the White House, he would free a pugnacious, self-made billionaire from a Hong Kong prison. “100% I’ll get him out. He’ll be easy to get out,” Trump declared in a podcast interview in October, radiating his trademark confidence.Nearly ten months later, that tycoon Jimmy Lai – a pro-democracy