Former US President Donald Trump faces various legal troubles, including allegations of tampering with the 2020 election, illegal retention of classified documents, a criminal case over a hush-money payment, sexual abuse, and defamation lawsuits. A Georgia grand jury indicted Trump, alleging that he tried to overturn his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump also faces charges of violating the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
U.S. special counsel Jack Smith has secured a second federal criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump. Smith, who was appointed in November 2021 to two Justice Department investigations involving Trump, charged the ex-president with conspiracy and witness tampering for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
It's the third time this year the early front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary has been charged in a criminal case. But it's the first case to try to hold Trump responsible for his efforts to remain in power during the chaotic weeks between his election loss and the attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump has said he did nothing wrong, and has accused Smith and the Justice Department of trying to harm his 2024 campaign.
If Trump is indicted by a Georgia grand jury, it would add to a growing list of legal troubles as he campaigns for president.
A grand jury indictment is expected to be sought by a Georgia prosecutor in the coming weeks, investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results. While Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis began the investigation two years ago, it was further prompted by a leaked recording of a phone call between Trump and Georgia's Secretary of State in January 2021, urging him to "find" 11,780 votes.
Trump says he is innocent and has decried the criminal case - the second indictment against him in a matter of months - as an attempt by his political opponents to hinder his 2024 campaign. He is expected to make his first court appearance on Tuesday in Miami.
Trump disclosed the existence of the indictment in a Truth Social post Thursday night as well as in a video he recorded.
A Trump representative told the National Archives in December 2021 that presidential records had been found at Mar-a-Lago. In January 2022, the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of documents from Trump's Florida home, later telling Justice Department officials that they contained "a lot" of classified material.
Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted by the Justice Department on charges of mishandling classified documents. He is the first former president in the US to face criminal charges by the federal government. The indictment includes seven charges, such as willful retention of national defense information, obstruction, false statements and conspiracy.
The criminal case, brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, amounts to another legal setback for Trump as he seeks to regain the U.S. presidency next year. He faces additional investigations in New York that is due to go to trial in March and also in Washington and Atlanta that also could lead to criminal charges.
Donald Trump launched a tirade against prosecutors on Tuesday, after pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts relating to falsifying business records. The former president accused the prosecutors and judge in the case of plotting against his bid for the White House in 2024, calling it "massive election interference at a scale never seen".
Trump was only seen briefly outside the district attorney's office, where he surrendered to authorities and was booked and fingerprinted behind closed doors. Trump's mugshot was not taken, according to two law enforcement officials who could not publicly discuss details of the process and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The charges trace back to a $130,000 hush-money payment that Trump's fixer, Michael Cohen, made to p*rn actress Stormy Daniels in the final days of the 2016 campaign. The payment, which Cohen said he made at Trump's direction, suppressed her story of a sexual liaison she says she had with Trump.
Each count covers an individual record related to payments by Trump to his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen between February and December 2017, the first year Trump was in the White House. According to Bragg, those payments were not for legal services, as they claimed, but were to reimburse Cohen for paying $130,000 to p*rn star Stormy Daniels for her silence during the 2016 election campaign. Daniels said she and Trump had a sexual encounter in 2006, the year after he married Melania Knauss, his third wife.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to be arraigned at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday following his indictment on criminal charges after a probe into hush money paid to a p*rn star. Below is an explanation of what it means to be indicted and arraigned, and other key terms related to Trump's case.
Former US President Donald Trump faces criminal charges in a New York courtroom, marking a significant moment in the democratic history of the US. He is expected to turn himself in on 2 November, with charges including at least one felony offence relating to hush money payments to women during his 2016 campaign. The indictment pierces the cloak of invisibility that seemed to follow Trump through his decades in business and in politics.
Trump, who was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday, becoming the first US president ever to face criminal charges, will surrender at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday, his lawyers said.
Authorities bolstered security around the Manhattan courthouse after Trump earlier this month called for nationwide protests, recalling his charged rhetoric ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. Neither the White House nor President Joe Biden, a Democrat who is widely expected to seek re-election in a possible rematch against Trump, commented on Thursday.
The Republican former US president, who has never been shy about grabbing the limelight, sent newsrooms in the United States and beyond into a spin on March 18 when he announced he was three days away from being brought before a New York judge. Trump, it turned out, had bad information or was simply guessing, and his equally baseless claim a week later that the case had been dropped altogether was greeted with due incredulity.
Carmack-Altwies last year hired a special prosecutor and received $318,000 in state funds to pursue what she believed would be high-profile, costly jury trials should charges be filed. New Mexico's worker safety agency in April fined the film's production company the maximum amount possible for what it described as "willful" safety lapses leading to Hutchin's death.
Prosecutors want Paul Allard Hodgkins to serve 18 months behind bars, saying in a recent filing that he, "like each rioter, contributed to the collective threat to democracy" by forcing lawmakers to temporarily abandon their certification of Joe Biden's election victory and to scramble for shelter from incoming mobs.
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