Former United States President Donald Trump is waging legal battles over several civil and criminal charges in his 2024 presidential bid.
Let’s look at the updates of all his pursuits so far.
What’s happening in Donald Trump’s court cases this week
Starting with the most recent, former President Donald Trump took the witness stand Monday in Trump’s civil fraud case in New York.
During the trials, Trump complained of unfair treatment during his testimony on the witness stand, while accusing New York Attorney General Letitia James of targeting him for political gain.
Previously, the judge imposed a silence, limiting Trump to any public statements against the prosecutor or anyone else involved in the case after he insulted the judge and publicly criticized his law clerk.
In this case, Trump is accused of fraudulently increasing the value of his company in order to make a profit and obtain better loan and insurance terms. His daughter, Ivanka Trump, is expected to testify Wednesday.
In Trump’s Florida classified documents case, the former president faces 40 federal charges related to his illegal possession of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Miami, Florida, and his conspiracy to keeping them hidden when the government attempted to recover the documents.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who is overseeing the case, has scheduled his trial for May 20, 2024. However, she had suggested that she might delay the pretrial and push back the planned timeline due to other related legal requirements. in the time of Trump.
He is also leading another trial in Washington related to Trump’s efforts to stay in power by trying to change the outcome of the 2020 election. He faces four federal charges for conspiring to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
The judge presiding over the case, Tanya A. Chutkan, has scheduled jury selection for February 9, 2024. Hundreds of District residents will be summoned to the federal courthouse to complete a written questionnaire about the case.
Although the case may be delayed from schedule, unlike the judge in the Trump case in Florida, the judge in the Washington case appears to be moving trials forward quickly and on schedule.
Judge Chutkan issued a limited silence order in early October, but later suspended the order. After a few days that same month, due to Trump’s continued attempts to target his prosecutors and court members, the judge reinstated the silence order against Trump, prohibiting the former president from targeting his prosecutors, his witnesses and court personnel involved in the 2020 election subversion case.
However, on Friday, a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Washington again suspended Judge Chutken’s silence order against Trump, temporarily allowing the former president to attack prosecutors or witnesses potential involved in the 2020 election. trial.
This means that Trump is free to issue statements against anyone involved in his affair. For now, the judge has issued a “stay” order in the case, temporarily halting the legal proceedings.
The order can be canceled when the judge deems it necessary to begin the procedure.
Trump’s fourth criminal prosecution is again linked to his illegal actions aimed at changing the results of the 2020 election in order to win the vote in the state of Georgia.
He faces 13 state charges for Trump’s alleged attempts to manipulate the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia. Eighteen other people were also charged alongside the former president in this case.
The judge has not yet set a trial date in the case.
Trump faces 34 criminal charges in his hush money case in New York, where he is accused of making secret payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her from speaking publicly about an affair she claimed to have had with Trump during the 2016 presidential election.
The judge set the trial date for March 25, 2024. So far, there have been no significant changes in the case.
However, last week, Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, appeared in New York civil court and stressed that they were not connected to illegal financial records and argued that their role was solely to focus on construction projects and development deals in the country. Trump Organization and not on financial documents.
They claimed the company’s financial records were accurate, without any alterations.
It now remains to be seen what the upcoming criminal trials will bring for Trump, one of the favorites for the Republican Party nomination for president of the United States in 2024, and how all his trials will affect his presidential candidacy of 2024.
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