This Monday he will become the first former president of the United States to go on trial.
donald trump will become this Monday first former US president to go on trial. However, the lawsuit he faces in New York, for the payments to former porn actress Stormy Danielsis just one of the multiple judicial messes that entangle the Republican as he seeks to return to the White House after the november elections.
New York: money in exchange for silence
The state trial of NY It will begin this April 15, after attempts by Trump’s legal team to delay it failed.
Regardless of whether or not the Republican is convicted, the trial in Manhattan will represent the first time that a former US president faces justice.
Trump is accused of 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, would have only acted as an intermediary for Trump’s $130,000 payment to Daniels to buy his silence during the election period.
The Republican wanted to cover up during his campaign that he had allegedly had sexual relations with Daniels in 2006.
Florida: secret documents in the basement
The FBI found dozens of boxes crammed into several rooms in Trump’s Florida mansion, with about 13,000 official documents -300 of them classified- that the former president took without permission when leaving the White House.
The trial is scheduled to begin the week of May 20 in federal court in Florida and Trump faces up to 20 years in prison on dozens of charges, mostly for deliberate withholding of 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 found in his possession were his private property.
Washington DC: the assault on the Capitol
In the US capital, Trump faces a federal trial for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election in which he lost against Democrat Joe Biden and for having instigated the assault on the Capitol from January 6, 2021.
The former president is accused of several crimes that could result in a maximum of 55 years in prison and the trial was scheduled for March 4, but his lawyers have managed to muddle the case to the point that it will hardly be held before the November elections.
The defense alleges that Trump is protected by so-called presidential immunity and has managed to open a parallel lawsuit in this regard that must be resolved first. The Supreme Court will hold a hearing on the matter on April 25.
Georgia: a mafia organization
In the southern state of Georgiathe former president faces a second criminal case, in state court, for his attempts to reverse the 2020 elections.
The Republican is accused along with 18 accomplices to form a mafia organization to try to overturn the election in Georgia, where he lost to Biden by a narrow margin.
But the judicial process has been marked by controversy over the romantic relationship that Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis had with Nathan Wade, a subordinate she hired to handle the case against Trump.
That sparked litigation and a soap opera that ended with Wade’s resignation and delayed the trial against Trump, for which there is still no date, for weeks.
Source: Eitb
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