Next Monday, he will become the first former president of the United States to go on trial.
Donald Trump will be this Monday first former US president to stand trial. However, the lawsuit he faces in New York, for the payments to former porn actress Stormy Danielsis just one of many legal messes ensnaring the Republican as he tries to return to the White House after the November elections.
New York: money in exchange for silence
The state trial against N.Y It starts on April 15, after attempts by Trump’s legal team to delay it failed.
Regardless of whether the Republican is convicted or not, the trial in Manhattan will be the first time a former US president has been brought to trial.
Trump is accused of it 34 crimes for falsifying accounting books in a series of payments to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, during the 2016 presidential campaign in which he won.
Cohen, who pleaded guilty and served more than a year in prison, is alleged to have acted solely as an intermediary for Trump’s $130,000 payment to Daniels to buy his silence during the election season.
During his campaign, the Republican wanted to conceal the fact that he had sexual relations with Daniels in 2006.
Florida: Secret documents in the basement
The FBI found dozens of boxes crammed into several rooms of Trump’s Florida mansion, containing approx 13,000 official documents -300 of them classified- which the former president took without permission when he left the White House.
The trial will begin the week of May 20 in federal court in Florida and Trump faces a prison sentence of twenty years on dozens of charges, many of them for deliberately withholding national defense information.
Last week, federal judge Aileen Cannon rejected an attempt by the New York mogul’s lawyers to dismiss the case on the grounds that the documents in his possession were his private property.
Washington DC: the attack on the Capitol
Trump faces a federal trial in the US capital for his attempt to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, in which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, and for instigating the 2020 election. attack on the Capitol from January 6, 2021.
The former president is accused of several crimes that could result in up to 55 years in prison and the trial was scheduled for March 4, but his lawyers have managed to cloud the case so much that it will barely be held before the November elections.
The defense claims that Trump is protected by so-called presidential immunity and has managed to launch a parallel lawsuit in this regard that must be resolved first. The Supreme Court will hold a hearing on the case on April 25.
Georgia: a mafia organization
In the southern state GeorgiaThe former president is facing a second criminal case, in state court, for his attempts to do so overturning the 2020 election.
The Republican is accused together with 18 accomplices form one mafia organization to try to overturn the election in Georgia, where he lost to Biden by a narrow margin.
But the legal proceedings were marked by controversy over the romantic relationship Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis had with Nathan Wade, a subordinate she hired to handle the case against Trump.
That led to lawsuits and a soap opera that ended with Wade’s resignation and the Trump trial, for which there is still no date, postponed for weeks.
Source: EITB
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