A judge set March 25 as the start date of the first criminal trial of donald trump in New York, in the case of payments to a porn actress.
But the former president, a candidate in the November presidential elections, is also accused of having exerted electoral pressure and mismanagement of state secrets. In total 91 charges.
These are the main legal problems of the Republican, who claims his innocence in all of them.
Payments to a porn actress
It will be the first criminal trial of a former president in the history of USA. He is accused of having “orchestrated” payments to silence three people whose revelations could have harmed him before the 2016 presidential election.
Especially the payment of US$130,000 to porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep secret an alleged extramarital affair dating back to 2006.
Each of the 34 crimes for which Trump is prosecuted carries a maximum of four years in prison, but the court of NY could impose an alternative sentence to prison.
It is not your most serious legal problem.
Electoral pressures
Much more serious have been his alleged attempts to alter the result of the 2020 presidential elections, which he won Joe Biden.
Federal authorities charged him in August with “conspiracy against the United States.”
They are based above all on the attack on the headquarters of the US Congress by Republican supporters on January 6, 2021.
The trial was to begin in Washington on March 4, but it has been postponed so that it can be evaluated whether the former president should be granted criminal immunity. The Supreme Court will examine it.
In this case, the former president faces decades behind bars.
Georgia
The alleged electoral pressures of donald trump They can also take their toll in 2020.
In this state in the south of the country, the former president is accused, among other things, of calling an official on January 2, 2021 to ask him to “find” 12,000 electoral ballots with his name.
Ten other people have been charged in this case, including his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
The prosecutor has resorted to a law on organized crime to prosecute them. He can be sentenced to between five and 20 years in prison.
But Trump has called for the charges to be dropped, alleging that the prosecutor was guilty of misconduct for maintaining a romantic relationship with a jurist who worked on the case.
State secrets
He is also accused of endangering the security of the United States by keeping state secrets after leaving the White House in January 2021.
This case led the FBI to search his Florida mansion on August 8, 2022. They found boxes of documents in a bathroom, in storage rooms…
A federal trial is scheduled to take place in Miami on May 25, 2024. Once again, Trump faces prison time.
civil lawsuits
The Republican has also been sued in several civil cases.
He is accused of having colossally inflated the value of his real estate assets in the 2010s. A verdict is expected this Friday.
In addition, Trump has been ordered to pay US$83.3 million in compensation to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her after she accused him of rape.
Source: Gestion
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