Donald Trump, the ten most famous scandals of the magnate who became the president of the United States

He is the first former President of the United States (2017-2021) to be impeached. His who knows what scandal led to Donald Trump before justice. Now yes, and in this case because of the alleged attempt to buy silence porn actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her from making public the alleged sexual relationship between the two. This same Tuesday, he will appear in New York for the alleged payment of $130,000 for his silence. The historical moment turned into a real spectacle: dozens and dozens of agents will follow the dismissal of the former president; 35,000 members of the New York police will be available in case of need, and demonstrations are even expected in several cities in the United States. A scandal that brings headline experts to justice. Some are left alone, others are waiting for judicial control.

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 you attack the capital, plus another separated by classified documents found at his residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida). The prosecutor wants to clarify if the then president incited 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 being studied how they were handled and whether there was obstruction of justice during the search for the documents.

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 cancel the election results Presidential elections in that country in 2020.

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.

THE 90’S

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 the terms in which he denied raping her, after she published her account of the alleged incident in a book and magazine article in 2019. The former president responded to the allegations by saying the rape could never have happened because Carroll “wasn’t his type”.

The start of the process has been temporarily suspended while waiting for the Court of Appeals to determine whether Trump is protected by presidential immunity, since the statements were made while he was in office.

To this request is added that of rape, which Carroll filed last November when New York’s new Adult Survivors Act went into effect, opening a one-year window for the state to seek justice for sex crimes that have lapsed.

ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUDULENT PROPERTY HANDLING

Finance and tycoon companies

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

The prosecution is looking for your company, Trump Organization, payment of $250 million and that both Trump and his children cannot do business in New York again. Related to this practice, last December two Trump Organization companies were found guilty in a New York court of various tax evasion charges for paying executives “under the table,” giving them a significant portion of their compensation to 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. Prosecutors in Manhattan accused the company of running a tax evasion scheme for more than 15 years, arguing that it reached the highest levels of responsibility, countering defense arguments that its orchestrators were acting for their own benefit, not on behalf of the company. .

MANTRA OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT

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 loyal followers, with little success in calling them, to come out in 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.”

October 2018

The Khashoggi scandal

Donald Trump supported Saudi Arabia over the mysterious disappearance of journalists from The Washington Post Kamal Khashoggi. The journalist, critical of the regime, was lost on October 2 of the same year in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Turkey claimed that he was killed, while Saudi Arabia maintained throughout that it had no information on his whereabouts. Trump then supported Riyadh in an interview with Associated Press. “Here we go again, you know, you’re guilty until proven innocent.” Even after talking to King Salman, the then US president assured that this killing had to do with people acting freely. In January 2019, the Saudi government initiated proceedings against eleven defendants. In December 2019, three defendants were sentenced to prison terms, three were acquitted, and five were sentenced to death. However, the Saudi prosecutor dismissed the UN investigation, which called for a criminal investigation, and said the killing “was not premeditated”.

June 16, 2016

From the wall to the separation of families at the border

Trump came to the White House promising to build a wall on the southern border of the United States and that Mexico would pay for it. “Frame my words,” he said in Manhattan in the days when he entered the presidential race. “Build the wall” became the rallying cry of his gatherings. His crusade against immigration continued during his tenure. About 2,000 children were separated from their parents at the border. Even in 2020, the American Civil Liberties Union publicly condemned its failure to find the families of 545 children taken from their families.

MARCH 2020

The “miracle” of the coronavirus pandemic

Summarizing all of Trump’s phrases about covid-19 would be impossible. “Coronavirus will disappear. It will be like a miracle and one day it will go away.” That’s how it all started, but his ability to underestimate the pandemic has been constant. Trump has proposed injecting disinfectants or applying sunlight to treat the sick. After surpassing 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus in the United States , he also stated that it could have been much worse. “I think we did the right thing and we did it well. We would have had two and a half million dead or something like that in that environment. We would have had a number that would have been much higher.”

SEPTEMBER 2019

Invitation to Ukraine to investigate Biden

On September 25, 2019, Trump would call the Ukrainian president to ask him to investigate his rival, Joe Bien. The goal was to find out whether the current US president used his influence while serving as vice president to close an investigation into a gas drilling company in Ukraine, which had one of Biden’s sons as an adviser. “There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son and Biden’s suspension of the lawsuit, and a lot of people want to know about that, so anything you can do with the attorney general would be great. Biden bragged that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can investigate … I think it’s terrible,” reads the transcript of Trump’s call to Volodymyr Zelensky, released by the White House.

since 1992

Flagged for sex scandals

The Stormy Daniels case is the first to force him to testify, but other women have pointed to the former president. Jill Hart accused him of unwanted sexual behavior at business meetings in 1992 and 1993. Jessica Leeds went back to the 1980s when she said The New York Times the misconduct he suffered from the tycoon on the plane. Photographer Kristin Anderson also assured the American press that Trump groped her in a nightclub, and Krena Virginia assured that Trump grabbed her hand and touched her chest in 2016.