Donald Trump’s election campaign 2024
2022.12.07 12:55
Donald Trump’s election campaign 2024
Budrigannews.com – This week, Donald Trump’s legal and political woes got worse when his real estate company was found guilty of tax fraud and a candidate he supported for the U.S. Senate lost a runoff election, clouding the former president’s 2024 re-election campaign even more.
Trump launched his campaign on Nov. 15 to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden for the Republican nomination. In the midterm elections, several Trump-backed candidates were defeated, including Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff on Tuesday.
Trump survived two congressional impeachment trials during his four years in office, including his 2016 campaign and subsequent four years in office. He has portrayed legitimate tests as politically roused “witch chases” and routinely utilizes fresh insight about examinations to fund-raise from his center allies.
Even though some recent public opinion polls have shown Republican voters switching their support to other potential candidates for the White House, most notably Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, none of the investigations would prevent Trump from running for office.
The New York state judge scheduled January 13 for the tax fraud case’s sentencing following Tuesday’s verdict. Up to $1.6 million in fines could be levied against the Trump Organization, which owns and operates hotels, golf courses, and other global real estate.
The business had said it wasn’t guilty. Trump wasn’t arrested.
Even though a company the size of the Trump Organization is unlikely to pay a significant fine, a jury’s verdict could make it more difficult for the Trump Organization to conduct business by alarming partners and lenders.
As part of his plea deal, the company’s former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, was required to testify against the Trump Organization. Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, promised to challenge the verdict.
As part of an investigation into efforts to overturn Trump’s defeat in the 2020 U.S. election, the special counsel overseeing two federal investigations has issued grand jury subpoenas to local election officials in Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
A list of Trump’s attorneys during the 2020 campaign, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Justin Clark, Jenna Ellis, and Cleta Mitchell, is also the subject of the subpoenas, which were made public on Tuesday.
On November 18, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel for two investigations by the Justice Department. After Trump left office, the second investigation focuses on how he handled classified government documents.
The fake slates of electors submitted to the U.S. National Archives for the state-by-state system that determines presidential election winners and an effort to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s victory are the focus of the investigation into a failed attempt by Trump allies to overturn the 2020 results.
Trump is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department for keeping government records after he left office in January 2021, some of which were marked as classified.
A search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate by FBI agents was authorized by the court on August 8. Among the thousands of records seized, there were about 100 classified documents. Additionally, there is a possibility of the probe being obstructed by investigators.
On December 1, a U.S. appeals court dealt a blow to Trump by overturning a judge’s appointment of an independent arbiter to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and permitting the use of all of the records in a criminal investigation of the former president.
In a civil lawsuit that was filed in September, New York Attorney General Letitia James stated that her office discovered more than 200 instances of Trump and the Trump Organization’s false asset valuations from 2011 to 2021.
James, a Democrat, said that Trump had increased his wealth by billions of dollars in order to get better insurance coverage and lower loan interest rates.
James wants to prevent Trump and his children, Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka, from running businesses in the state of New York for the rest of their lives. He also wants to stop them and his company from buying new properties and getting loans in the state for five years.
Additionally, James demands that the defendants hand over approximately $250 million, which she claims was obtained through fraud.
Trump has called the lawsuit brought by the attorney general a witch hunt. James’ claims have been called without merit by a Trump lawyer.
E. Jean Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, files a complaint in a federal court in Manhattan in which she accuses Trump of battery and denying that he raped her 27 years ago.
New York’s Adult Survivors Act, a new law that gives sexual assault victims a one-year window to sue alleged abusers even if the statute of limitations has expired, was the basis upon which Carroll, 78, filed the battery claim on November 24.
Trump, 76, has stated that Carroll was “not my type” and denied raping her or knowing her at the time. She filed a defamation lawsuit against him five months later after his initial denial in June 2019.
Both sides are awaiting decisions from the appeals court regarding Trump’s claim that because he had spoken in his capacity as president, he was legally protected from Carroll’s first lawsuit.
Carroll is suing for unknown damages. She claimed that Trump caused her long-term psychological harm and prevented her from maintaining a romantic relationship to back up her battery claim.
On Tuesday, the chairman of the House of Representatives committee that is looking into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump said that the committee had decided to send the case to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.
The Justice Department, which is conducting its own investigation into the riot, may or may not decide to bring charges following a referral.
After the then-Republican president delivered a passionate speech in which he erroneously claimed that his defeat by Biden was the result of fraud, the Democratic-led House Select Committee has been looking into the attack on the Capitol for more than a year.
Over 140 police officers were injured and five people, including a police officer, died during or shortly after the riot. The State house endured great many dollars in harm and afterward VP Mike Pence, individuals from Congress and staff frantically got away in the midst of the mayhem.
In May, a Georgia prosecutor appointed a special grand jury to investigate Trump’s alleged efforts to influence the 2020 election results in that state.
The phone call that Trump made to Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021 is a part of the investigation. Raffensperger was asked by Trump to “find” the necessary number of votes to overturn his Georgia election defeat.
According to legal experts, Trump may have broken at least three criminal election laws in Georgia: intentional interference with the performance of election duties, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud, and conspiracy to commit election fraud.
Trump could argue that his discussions were free speech as defined by the Constitution.
A California federal judge cited emails that the judge looked at on Oct. 19 to say that Trump knowingly made false claims about voter fraud in a Georgia election lawsuit.
