Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyThe New York trial that could bankrupt Donald Trump’s corporate empire is only three weeks away and the former president has bet the farm on the notion that his deals were too long ago to investigate—a ploy that increasingly looks like a dud.Trump wants to direct Justice Arthur F. Engoron’s attention to the dates he finalized some sizable real estate deals in Chicago, Miami, Washington, and elsewhere. But according to a source familiar wi