Although there was no confirmation from the FBI, the search operation of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home would be linked to the investigation into the illegal removal and destruction of White House files by the former president.
Trump responds to a variety of lawsuits, both criminal and civil. Find out what the main ones are:
Disappearance of national files
The National Archives and Records Administration (Nara) notified the US Congress in February that it had recovered approximately 15 boxes of documents from the White House at Trump’s Florida residence — some of which were classified.
Trump had said he agreed with the return and that it was “ordinary” procedure. The House asked Nara for more information and opened an investigation into Trump’s responsibility for the disappearance of the papers.
Invasion of the Capitol
Liz Cheney, vice chair of the commission investigating the Capitol Hill attack, wants to prove that the former president broke the law by trying to invalidate the election in which he was defeated.
Cheney said he could file multiple felony charges against Trump with the Justice Department. A committee hearing in March detailed the former president’s efforts to sabotage the 2020 election.
The commission cannot, however, indict Trump for federal crimes. The decision rests with the Department of Justice, represented by the attorney general, Merrick Garland.
Trump could, as part of the process running in the House, be indicted for “seditious conspiracy” for the January 6 episodes, a legal device rarely used.
electronic fraud
During a June hearing of the committee investigating the Capitol Hill raid, congressional Democrats said Trump raised around $250 million from his supporters claiming he would use the amount to appeal the election results in court. .
The amount had another allocation, raising the possibility that Trump could be charged with wire fraud, a crime that prohibits obtaining funds on a false or fraudulent pretext.
Georgia election tampering
A popular jury was convened in May in the state of Georgia to assess Trump’s coordinated efforts to influence the outcome of local elections. The heart of the investigation is a call made by the former president to then Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021.
In the phone call, Trump reportedly asked the secretary to “find” the 11,780 votes needed to reverse the Republican’s election defeat.
Legal experts say Trump may have violated at least three Georgian electoral laws in this case: conspiracy to rig election; criminal solicitation to rig election; and intentional interference in the performance of electoral functions.
Criminal case against the Trump Organizations
Alvin Bragg, a Democrat and Manhattan District Attorney, is investigating in the criminal sphere whether Trump’s family company concealed or declared low-value assets to obtain bank loans and tax advantages. Two prosecutors who were leading the investigation dropped the case, but Bragg says it remains ongoing.
Trump Organizations Civil Proceedings
New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating whether the Trump Organization made fraudulent valuations of the company’s assets in an attempt to obtain economic benefits and tax deductions.
Donald Trump is expected to testify, along with two of his children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., at a hearing scheduled for August 15.
Defamation against E Jean Carroll
And Jean Carroll, a former contributor to Elle magazine, sued Trump in 2019 after he denied her claim of raping her in a New York department store in the 1990s. Trump said the writer lied to boost sales of a book. Lawyers for the Republican, on the other hand, understand that the former president is protected by a federal law that leaves public officials immune from defamation.
Can Trump be sued if he runs again for the presidency?
Yup. There is a decades-old understanding in US justice that an incumbent president cannot be denounced, but protection does not extend to presidential candidates.
