April 4, 2023, 9:05 PM
April 4, 2023, 9:05 PM
donald trump appeared in court in New York on Tuesday. after being indicted for a case of false accounting linked to payments to buy the silence of a porn actress in 2016, but he is also facing other investigations.
A congressional committee, dissolved by the Republican majority that took office this year in the lower house, investigated Trump’s role in the attack on his supporters at the Capitol on January 6, 2021when legislators were preparing to certify the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential elections.
During several hearings, the committee, made up mainly of Democrats, assured that the former Republican president inflamed his supporters before the assault and that “failed in his duty as commander in chief” during the attack.
In its final report, the panel said that Trump should not be allowed to hold public office again and recommended that the federal courts opened criminal proceedings against himespecially for calling for an insurrection.
This is the case that could lead to the most serious charges against Trump.
A special prosecutor, Jack Smith, is also investigating the former president’s role in attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. When the investigations are over, I could decide to frame him or not.
but the last word will have the Secretary of Justice, Merrick Garland.
– Elections in Georgia –
A Georgia prosecutor has been investigating since 2021 the “attempts to influence electoral operations” of this southern state, which Biden won by a narrow majority in 2020.
In a phone call, the recording of which has been made public, Trump asked a senior local official, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” almost 12,000 votes in favor of him.
Fani Willis, the attorney for Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, appointed a grand jury to determine if there was sufficient evidence to accuse to the tycoon
He obtained testimony from people close to Trump, including his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
this grand jury recommended incriminating several people, without revealing if the former president is among them.
– White House Archives –
Leaving the White House, Trump took whole boxes of documents, despite the fact that a 1978 law requires all US presidents to send all their emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives.
In January 2022 Trump returned 15 boxes. But federal police estimated that the former president likely had more at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
Subsequently, FBI agents carried out a search, prior court orderfor “retention of classified documents” and “obstruction of a federal investigation,” and they confiscated about thirty more boxes.
Then an intense legal battle was opened to determine the nature of the seized documents (classified? personal? declassified?) which slowed down the proceedings, but the case may lead to a federal indictment.
Special Counsel Smith is also investigating the case.
In January, the Trump Organization was sentenced in New York to pay a fine of up to 1.6 million dollars for tax and financial fraud. It is a criminal case, but another civil case awaits him in a few months.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, has filed a lawsuit against Trump, his children and the Trump Organization.
He accuses them of having “deliberately” manipulated the value of group assets -which includes golf clubs, luxury hotels and other properties- to obtain more advantageous loans from banks or reduce taxes.
Claims $250 million in damages and damages on behalf of the state, as well as prohibiting the former president and his family members from running companies.
