About two years away from the 2024 presidential election, for which he will be a candidate, Trump faces massive actions in quantity and substance, such as civil lawsuits stemming from his pre-presidential business dealings, sexual violations, attempts to have the 2020 election results null and void. declaring or illegally preserving confidential documents.
Here is a list of the most important investigations surrounding Donald Trump:
A committee set up in the House of Representatives, about to be dissolved by the new Republican majority, is investigating Donald Trump’s role in the attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol seat on January 6, 2021, when the electoral authorities the victory of his presidential opponent, Joe Biden.
During prime-time televised hearings, this panel provided “overwhelming evidence” that Trump “personally orchestrated a plan” to undo his 2020 presidential defeat, including by spreading false allegations of widespread election fraud, “in an effort to” Justice Department and lobbying state officials, members of Congress and your own Vice President to try and change the results.
In addition, the commission ruled that Trump “failed to fulfill his duty” as head of state during the attack.
This committee, majority Democratic, called for him to testify, but the Republican filed a lawsuit to escape subpoena. Members must therefore submit their final report by the end of the year without hearing the tycoon.
In that document, the Commission may recommend opening a case against Donald Trump.
Newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith will also investigate the former president’s role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
But the last word will rest with US Attorney General Merrick Garland, whose office has already charged more than 870 participants in the attack on the capital.
When leaving the White House, Donald Trump took entire boxes of documents with him. However, a 1978 law requires every US president to send all his emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives.
In January, Trump returned 15 boxes. After an investigation, federal police estimated that the tycoon likely kept other files at his luxurious residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
In this regard, on August 8, FBI agents conducted an extensive search of Trump’s mansion, based on a warrant of “confidential preservation” and “obstruction of a federal investigation,” and seized about 30 other boxes.
An intense legal battle then began to determine the nature of the seized documents, some of which were marked “top secret”, “secret” or “confidential”.
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith will also have to investigate this case.
In New York State Judge Letitia James, an elected Democrat, filed a civil suit against Donald Trump, his children and his business group, the Trump Organization.
James accuses them of “deliberately” manipulating the valuations of the group’s assets – including golf clubs, luxury hotels and other properties – in order to get better bank loans or lower their taxes.
The New York Attorney General is seeking $250 million (240.3 million euros) in damages on behalf of the state, in addition to an operating ban for the former president and his family.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is investigating the criminal component of this case in parallel. Several members of the Trump Organization were charged and a trial began in late October. However, it does not directly concern the former president.
A Georgia state attorney has been investigating since 2021 “attempts to influence election operations” in this southern state, which was won by a narrow margin in 2020 by Joe Biden.
In a phone call, the recording of which was made public, Donald Trump asked a senior local official, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” nearly 12,000 ballots in his name.
Fani Willis, the District Attorney of Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, appointed a grand jury to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to indict the real estate mogul. Willis has already managed to gather important testimony, especially from his former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
In line with the most recent allegations against Tump is the sexual offense allegedly committed nearly 30 years ago against journalist and writer E. Jean Carroll and presented Thursday.
Invoking the New York Adult Survivors Act, which took effect this week, the author asks that the former president be tried by a jury for the crime of injuries related to “rape and forcible touching,” and demands that Trump compensate her for the damage, with an undetermined fine.
Carroll, 78, had already filed a defamation suit against Trump after denying the rape charge, accusing him of making “false accusations” and derogatory comments about his appearance.
On her account on the social network Twitter, the author explained that this new trial could “spoil Thanksgiving Day (which was celebrated in the US on Thursday) for the former president,” but claims it could be relevant “for any woman who has grabbed, groped, harassed, pinched, pushed, assaulted, discredited or dragged through the mud by a powerful man”.
This week, Manhattan’s new attorney’s office announced it will re-examine Donald Trump’s role in a secret payment made to a pornographic actress during the 2016 presidential campaign.
At the time, the Attorney General’s Office was investigating the secret payment, in cash, that Trump’s presidential candidacy made to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her from disclosing an alleged sexual relationship with the then-presidential candidate, which would violate the law of the United States. New York. York state.
Under the command of Manhattan’s new prosecutor Alvin L. Bragg, the Attorney General’s Office is returning to the original focus of the investigation, as it is not yet known whether new charges will be brought against Trump.
Source: DN
