Trump, backed into a corner by a tangle of court processes

Former President of the USA Donald Trump (2017-2021) just became the first former president of the state to be indicted, in this case for allegedly trying to buy the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her from going public with an alleged sexual relationship between them. But this is not the only process in which the controversial Trump (76) is involved, and he has several open for political, economic and sexual crimes.

Trump, who announced his 2024 presidential bid in November, could experience serious problems in his political goals if any of these pending cases succeed.

January 6, 2021

Attack on the Capitol and classified documents

In November of last year, the United States Government announced the beginning of an investigation to determine the possible involvement of Donald Trump in the attack on the Capitol, plus another separated by classified documents found in his residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida). The prosecution wants to clarify whether the then president encouraged his followers that they break into the Capitol.

The investigations will focus on discovering whether there are one or more individuals who “interfered in the transfer of power” and in the process of ratifying Joe Biden as president on January 6, 2021 in Congress, after winning the 2020 election against Trump. As for the documents, it is studied how they were handled and if there was obstruction of justice while I’m looking for papers.

In the state of Georgia

Alleged interference in elections

Another criminal case Trump could face is being investigated in the state of Georgia, where prosecutors are investigating the former president’s attempts to annul the results of the 2020 presidential election in the stated condition.

Prosecutors have so far presented the testimony of 75 people to a grand jury, including Trump’s former personal attorney and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, as well as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who bears the blame, to confirm the election results. According to the prosecution, on January 2, 2021, Trump pressured Raffensperger to overturn the results of the November 2020 election. Specifically, Trump asked Raffensperger to “look for” the votes needed to overturn Biden’s victory.

Nineties of the last century

Rape lawsuit by E. Jean Carroll

Writer E. Jean Carroll filed two civil suits against Trump, one for defamation and another for injury this would happen in the dressing rooms of the Bergdorf Goodman store on Fifth Avenue in the mid-nineties.

On the one hand, the 79-year-old author is waging a defamation legal battle against Trump over remarks in which he denied raping her, after she published her account of the alleged incident in a book and newspaper article. in the 2019 magazine.

The start of the process was temporarily suspended until the decision of the Court of Appeal if Trump is protected by presidential immunity, given that those statements were made while he was serving as president.

Added to this lawsuit is the rape-only lawsuit, which Carroll filed last November when New York’s new Adult Survivors Act went into effect, opening a one-year window in the state to seek justice for statutory sex crimes. .

Accusations of trespassing

Finance and tycoon companies

In addition to the lawsuits aimed directly at Trump, New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, is accusing him, his company and several of his children of fraudulently manipulating the value of the assets of the family business for years apply for loans and get tax credits.

Prosecutors are demanding that his company, the Trump Organization, pay $250 million and that Trump and his children can no longer do business in New York. In connection with this practice, last December two companies from the Trump Organization were found guilty in a New York court of various charges of tax evasion, because pay executives “under the table”giving them a significant portion of their remuneration so that they can reduce their taxable share.

The two companies found guilty by a Manhattan Supreme Court jury were the Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corporation, although neither the former president nor his relatives were charged. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office charged the company with the work evaded taxes for more than 15 yearsassuring that it reached the highest levels of responsibility, against the defense’s argument that its orchestrators were acting for their own benefit and not on behalf of the company.

The former president’s mantra

It’s all a witch hunt

Like a mantra, the former president never tires of insisting on his innocence and repeating that this is a politically motivated “witch hunt,” a statement that has resonated with many of his most radical followers.

Two weeks ago Trump assured that he could be arrested and asked his faithful followers, with little success in convening, to come out to protest. The former president said the information came to him through “illegal leaks from a corrupt and highly politicized Manhattan prosecutor’s office that allowed new records to be set in violent crimes and whose leader is funded by (businessman) George Soros.”