- Donald Trump has defiantly resolved many major legal headaches ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
- Other cases are expected to be resolved well before 2024.
- But Trump still faces endless risks from the Justice Department and the Fulton County DA.
Donald Trump delayed investigations and lawsuits against him for four years during his presidency.
He put a lot of them away for his third presidential election announcement.
Earlier in November, protesters claimed he was beaten by his security guards outside Trump Tower while demonstrating against racist accusations against Mexicans in September 2015. The lawsuit filed was settled.
From fall 2021 to spring 2022, he will participate in the payments sprint.
In September 2021, his firm also settled a lawsuit from the hotel management company that bought Trump’s hotel in Panama, claiming the Trump Organization misrepresented its financial situation. Months later, just prior to the deposition, Trump settled a lawsuit filed by Summer Zervos. agreed to pay a $750,000 fine to settle an investigation into misappropriated money that it claims enriched its members.
Trump can also thank the judges for giving him several wins.
November 15, 2022 was probably the best court date in recent memory. A New York court dismissed a lawsuit filed by her niece Mary Trump.
On the same day, another New York federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Michael Cohen, who said the Trump administration was trying to remove him from house arrest and keep him in prison during the coronavirus pandemic. (Cohen told Insider he was considering an appeal.)
Several incidents involving Trump associates no longer haunt him either.
His longtime friend Tom Barrack was acquitted by a Brooklyn jury of charges of illegally acting as a lobbyist for the United Arab Emirates. Prosecutors said they would not press charges against former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, either, following an investigation into whether he acted illegally as a lobbyist for foreign powers.
In the loss column, Steve Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress for ignoring a subpoena from a committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots. The Supreme Court this week cleared the way for another House committee to obtain his tax returns.
He may be able to clear the rest by 2024…
No matter how furious Trump is, some of the legal headaches he can’t get rid of.
Earlier this month, the Trump Organization lost a tax fraud case in Manhattan. The defense’s allegations, as reported by insider Laura Italiano, relied on the jury’s persuasion that Trump was indeed a lenient boss and didn’t keep a close eye on his company’s financial troubles. Could not.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office hasn’t ruled out indicting Trump personally as part of the company’s financial investigation. Trump also faces a $250 million lawsuit from the New York Attorney General as part of a parallel lawsuit alleging he inflated the company’s earnings to defraud banks and insurance companies. The attorney general’s office has already persuaded a judge to put his company under independent oversight, disrespected him, and forced him and other executives to take depositions.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, November 15, 2022.
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E. Gene Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump, accused of rape and defamation, is set to go to trial in April.New York Attorney General’s Case Scheduled for Trial in October
Another lawsuit filed by plaintiffs alleging that the Trump Organization defrauded them by promoting a deceptive multi-level marketing scheme could go to trial in the fall of 2023 if not resolved by then. Plaintiffs’ attorneys have asked the judge for an October 2023 trial date “before primaries and other campaign-related events begin in earnest.”
“Plaintiffs do not wish to interfere with future campaigns, and if the timeline in this case were extended to 2024, defendants would likely seek further delays on campaign grounds, as they have in the past. I have in mind,” the lawyer wrote.
…with a few major exceptions
Trump’s most serious legal issues are also the ones he’s the hardest to get rid of.
His greatest threat comes from the Justice Department, which has launched a criminal investigation into his handling of government records he brought into Mar-a-Lago. Appointed Jack Smith, an experienced corruption prosecutor, as the special counsel to oversee the investigation.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters on Aug.
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Trump successfully persuaded a federal judge he appointed in Florida to bring a “special master” to the case, temporarily delaying the government’s ability to use documents seized from his estate for investigations. and won an early victory. However, his attorneys are embarrassed by the Circuit Court on appeals related to the case, indicating that his legal defense will become more difficult as the investigation progresses.
Smith is also overseeing another criminal investigation into efforts to keep Trump in power despite losing the 2020 election. He faces a series of lawsuits from lawmakers and Capitol police officers who have tried to hold him accountable for the day’s turmoil. His Jan. 6 committee in the House ended this month, but the lawsuit is in sight before the Republican Party resumes his Jan.
Trump’s efforts to stay in power despite the will of American voters are also under scrutiny in Georgia. Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis urged state officials to nullify current President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election and “find” votes in his favor. I have overseen the investigation.
Willis is waging a legal battle to force someone in Trump’s orbit to take a deposition in her investigation, and is said to be considering filing charges as well in December.
